[UPHPU] Passwords

thebigdog bigdog at venticon.com
Mon Mar 17 19:47:44 MDT 2008


> Very sound advise.  This is basic ?nix admin.  Even if you are the only
> person developing on a box you should never do anything as root.  You should
> always set up and use sudo to take care of root tasks and you should always
> set up a group (even if it's just for yourself) that is not "other" and/or
> owned by root.  It makes the "admin" in your life much easier.

another cool feature that i love about sudo is that it is logged...and i can 
speak from experience that i have had to review the logs to find out what 
commands have been ran by others to track issues down. good thing we had that 
stuff logged.

--
ray


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