Re: [tlug] on root logins (1)

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 29/12/05, Michael Reinsch <mr@example.com> wrote:

> So I'm still not convinced that giving an administrator more rights in a
> general way as you described (adding his user to the sys group *1) is a
> good idea. In my opinion, an administrator should be required to
> deliberately switch to a status with more rights (*2) for a certain
> task, instead of having those rights all the time.

I agree.

Using sudo raises a mental flag in my head: "OK, Josh, be careful now!"

I also tend to echo dangerous commands before running them, e.g.

sudo echo rm -rf foo*bar

Just to make sure wildcards expand the way I expect, etc.

Cheers,
Josh