On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:37:05AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110131040038.GA3315@fischer>, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> If you do an expert install you are offered the choice to disable root > >> logins and use sudo instead. Yes, this is on Debian, squeeze installer. > > > >Oh! ok. Then again, "expert" does imply that you know what you are > >doing, which seems a bit backwards. > > I maintain that experts will be more likely to use sudo than su. It > provides better granularity and helps avoid password sharing. A password > shared is a password compromised.
Right. But being the expert you probably won't be asking questions where the answer is something like "sudo <whatever>" But as is more likely someone asking for advice where the answer is "sudo <whatever>" are either not experts, and hence it wouldn't have been configured when they installed squeeze, and therefore the answer "sudo <whatever>" won't work, or, they are running Ubuntu where it would work BUT as we all know (all together now) "Ubuntu is NOT Debian." Am I misunderstanding something? -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110202113302.GH3865@fischer
