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Re: Looking at su versus sudo

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RS Wood wrote:

> Linux System is much secured than any of its counterpart. One of the way
> to implement security in Linux is the user management policy and user
> permission. normal users are not authorized to perform any system
> operations. If a normal user needs to perform any system wide changes he
> needs...

I believe we should stop promoting FUD like this. The FOSS communities have 
been damaged in the past by FUD from companies like Microsoft, but we have 
our own half-truths that we are used (and like) to say/write.

Every modern OS has privilege separation between users, so starting an 
article implying that user management is a reason why linux "is much secured 
than any of its counterpart" [sic] is just silly.

Besides, while this is obviously aimed at Windows, I'd say that in general 
the first sentence of the summary is not even correct: it is debatable 
whether the default security of a given Linux distribution is on par with 
OpenBSD or systems like AIX


Cheers

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Looking at su versus sudo RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-20 13:18 +0000
  Re: Looking at su versus sudo Alan Ralph <alan.ralph@gmail.com> - 2014-03-20 15:24 +0000
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-20 15:45 +0000
  Re: Looking at su versus sudo Alvaro Martínez <alvaro.gmj@gmail.com> - 2014-03-20 23:11 -0300
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-21 09:35 +0000
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-21 18:07 +0000
      Re: Looking at su versus sudo Alvaro Martínez <alvaro.gmj@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 00:23 -0300
  Re: Looking at su versus sudo Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-22 10:07 +0000
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-03-22 16:32 +0100
      Re: Looking at su versus sudo Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-22 19:18 +0000
        Re: Looking at su versus sudo Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-23 12:34 +0200
          Re: Looking at su versus sudo Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-23 11:34 +0000
        Re: Looking at su versus sudo Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-03-23 13:03 +0100

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