Re: Security Practices question

[just me <matt () snark net>]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote:

  Can you back up that statement in /any/ way? What exactly are your reasons
  why sudo is a worse solution (or even a bad idea)?

In an environment where every sysadmin is interchangable, and any one
of them can be woken up at 3am to fix the random problem of the day,
you tell me how to manage 'sudoers' on 4000 machines.

In an situation where the team needs root; all per-admin UID 0
accounts add is accountability and personalized shells/environments.

Sorry to ruffle your dogma.


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