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Re: Don't try this at home kids

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On 11/29/21 2:41 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> P.S. I am totally unconvinced about the arguments for using sudo rather 
> than running as root. You can do exactly the same damage with sudo as 
> being root user.
> P.P.S The conventional instruction is to use visudo to do the edits. 
> Which means using Vi, which is another anachronism that should be 
> humanely put down.

That's about the size of it. I've used forty-year-old non-full-screen 
editors that are a hundred times more intuitive than vi is. And the only 
reason ROOT access is more dangerous than, say, QSECOFR access on OS/400 
(or whatever IBM is calling it this week) is because there's nothing 
stopping a Linux ROOT from doing things *nobody* should be allowed to do 
without putting the system into some kind of maintenance mode.

I have access to a number of Amazon Linux virtual boxes, that don't like 
password authentication in general (preferring certificate 
authentication . . . which authenticates the BOX that is ssh-ing in, but 
not the WARM BODY between the chair and the keyboard).

And if you have a system that doesn't allow ROOT to sign on, and doesn't 
allow you to SU, then you can achieve the same result by doing

   sudo bash

--
JHHL

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Don't try this at home kids Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-11-29 23:40 +0100
  Re: Don't try this at home kids Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-11-29 23:50 +0100
    Re: Don't try this at home kids Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-11-29 23:50 +0100
      Re: Don't try this at home kids David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-30 05:50 +0100
        Re: Don't try this at home kids Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-11-30 07:00 +0100
          Re: Don't try this at home kids Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2021-11-30 18:20 +0100
            Re: Don't try this at home kids Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-30 19:20 +0100
              Re: Don't try this at home kids David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-03 03:50 +0100
            Re: Don't try this at home kids Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-11-30 20:40 +0100
              Re: Don't try this at home kids Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-05 16:40 +0100
        Re: Don't try this at home kids Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-05 16:50 +0100
    Re: Don't try this at home kids Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-11-30 00:00 +0100
    Re: Don't try this at home kids "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2021-11-30 00:20 +0100
      Re: Don't try this at home kids Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-11-30 00:30 +0100
      Re: Don't try this at home kids John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-11-30 01:10 +0100
      Re: Don't try this at home kids Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-11-30 01:10 +0100
      Re: Don't try this at home kids Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-11-30 01:30 +0100
        Re: Don't try this at home kids Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2021-11-30 05:30 +0100
          Re: Don't try this at home kids Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-12-03 05:50 +0100
  Re: Don't try this at home kids Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> - 2021-11-30 00:00 +0100
  Re: Don't try this at home kids Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2021-11-30 00:00 +0100

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