On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:54:43PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20100204004432.ga2...@europa.office>, Freeman wrote: > > > >There have been occasional mentions of sudo here, as if it were no big deal. > >In my original learning, it is a big deal. That is, su, not sudo, is "the > >Debian way," whatever that is. I've never noticed a discussion of its > >approval, maybe because the mentions were secondary to the main point. > > sudo is certainly supported by Debian. It's in main, and AFAIK well- > maintained. However, it is not part of the base Debian system, so it may not > be present on every user's system. su is part of the base system, so it is > more "portable" is some sense. > > I vastly prefer sudo. It provides more options, is more fine-grained, and is > more secure in many cases. However, it remains, like most simple Linux (and > UNIX) utilities, very "raw" in that it won't aggressively advise you about > possibly dangerous (i.e. insecure or destructive) uses.
On searching the Debian Reference I find constant mention of using sudo. Unless something has changed since sarge, I surmise that I may have been receiving admonishments designed for newbies and I didn't think to look futher into it. :) Debian sudo also has a default password timeout of 15 minutes which is probably deemed acceptable for security. -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
