Re: SUDO

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Subject: Re: SUDO
From: Dan H <dunno@stoptrick.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:27:17 +0100
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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:47:09 +0100
Jostein Elvaker Haande <jehaande@gmail.com> wrote:

> erik	ALL=(ALL) ALL

I've always heard people discouraging root logins or "su" and using sudo instead. I know how sudo works and how to fine-tune system access with it, but is the above suggestion in any way different or safer than a root login?

--D.

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