[Ffmpeg-devel] PATCH: Build Suffix

Måns Rullgård mru
Thu Jul 28 18:28:33 CEST 2005


Mike Melanson said:
> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Charles Yates said:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:44 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>>>
>>>>sudo is idiotic anyway. If you allow someone to sudo make install,
>>>>they can have full root perms in a few seconds.
>>>
>>>LOL - this is true of course, but, umm, for most self administered
>>>development machines, won't the user have full root perms anyway?
>>
>>
>> Sure he will, and hence he has no need for sudo in the first place.
>
> 	sudo still provides some useful features, like logging everything done
> through sudo.

~root/.bash_history

> It can also be used from a remote login, unlike 'su' (per my knowledge).

Both can be enabled or disabled individually for most kinds of terminals.
The specifics will depend on which authentication methods your system uses.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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