[Coco] Compiling LWTOOLS - root ?

[Jeff Teunissen]

Oh sure, I commonly do things like 'sudo su - [user]' to get a login
shell for a 'task' user.
Just sayin' there's a reason everybody says "sudo make install"
instead of "'su' followed by 'make install'"

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 2:02 PM Patrick Ulland via Coco
<coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> A distinction without a difference. Probably half our helpful users knew
> and always used 'sudo bash' to save typing and avoid logs. Management
> let 'em, and when I left (just preVID), that trick still worked after
> ssh in. Maybe we broke something.
>
>
> On 7/3/2023 10:48 AM, Jeff Teunissen via Coco wrote:
> > The slight security difference between sudo and su on a regular Linux
> > distro is that the password being entered is yours, and not the root
> > password (which on most installations does not exist in order to
> > disallow root login entirely). Those individual actions themselves
> > don't make the machine more secure, but the combination (no root login
> > permitted, no root password to crack) does somewhat improve things and
> > makes it easier to lock down more by just editing sudoers.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 7:16 AM Patrick Ulland via Coco
> > <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >> Lots of sudo advice is taken out of context. In a commercial (not
> >> development) systems, sudo is very important, users can’t do ANYTHING
> >> unless they are in a short list of folks granted an even shorter list of
> >> commands.