Re: [owl-users] Owl-based desktop environment

From: GalaxyMaster (galaxy@private)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2007 - 12:12:25 PDT


Grigoriy,

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:04:08PM +0400, Grigoriy Strokin wrote:

>   3) Later I used sudo, but now I know it is not a good idea
>      to use su/sudo to root as a non-privileged user.
>      So, what is the right way to get admin's privileges while working
>      locally in X Window as grg? 
>        ssh r_grg@localhost ? 
>      What about using passwords?

I'd recommend to not make an unprivileged user to privileged user switch
(if you are concerned about security).  From this point of view ssh
r_grg@localhost is no better than su - (although both are better than
sudo).

As for me, when I need root powers on my PC, I'm switching to another
console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2 in X) and login as root.

-- 
(GM)



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