Re: [Hampshire] Result of the Ubuntu Challenge

It's just a mental distinction. On my own home network, I am both sysadmin and
user. On my parents' network I have a user account but am primarily sysadmin.
It's just a personal quirk.

As for the safety point, that's why we don't drink and do systems work!

Tim B.

On Sunday 13 May 2007 12:28, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:19:01PM +0100, Tim B - Systems wrote:
> > I couldn't get on with sudo either. Perhaps I'm just too regimented in my
> > thinking of "sysadmin has root password". I personally like the obvious
> > distinction of ROOT and USER. Letting users have root access is not a
> > concept I like, even if it is well-controlled.
>
> If you are the only user in /etc/sudoers then I don't understand why
> you feel the lines between sysadmin and user have been blurred.
>
> Also from a safety point of view it is far easier to type a command
> into a root shell by accident than it is to put sudo in front of
> something by accident.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy

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