Re: [Hampshire] Directory permissions in Ubunut v Debian

2008/5/1 john lewis <johnlewis@???>:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 12:58:23 +0000
> Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:54:54PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton
> > wrote:
> > > Um??? So where is the question? I don't see any question marks
> > > at all in that entire email!!!
>
> James is just being pedantic, I understood that Paul was posing a
> question from the outset :-)
>
>
> > I think it was just a chance to say "I don't like ubntbuntntutntu"
>
> I'll not comment on that as I'll just get accused of flame baiting,
> but I don't like the use of sudo for doing admin tasks and have
> almost never used sudo, the one exception is on my local server,
> landing,which I normally access as a normal user via ssh and have
> it set up so I can run <sudo aptitude safe-upgrade> without having
> to use su+password, though that is what I do if I need to do any
> other admin tasks on that box.
>
> IMHO admin tasks should be done as the root user and not as a pseudo
> root. The U* way strikes me as being like windows where you can give
> a user admin rights and that user can then do anything.
>

What if multiple people are accessing the server and managing it?
sudo puts a log entry in for each and every command run as sudo.
So tracing who did what is a lot easier, and knowing what was done to
cause a problem makes fixing the problem easier.
I like sudo.