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> Virtually all users of sudo are using it on their own computer which they are the sole user and ultimately the administrator of. This is not the case at all.
by Hendrikto 2y ago
> Virtually all users of sudo are using it on their own computer which they are the sole user and ultimately the administrator of.
This is not the case at all. The vast vast majority of Linux installs are on servers.
- troyvit 2y agoThen I propose letting systemd hijack sudo's usefulness only on server installs.
- tomxor 2y agoThat's not what parent means. They are arguing it's not generally used to delegate partial root access to unprivileged users, i.e by adding narrow sudoers rules to allow "some" specific things to be run as root for some users who don't have full root access otherwise. I tend to agree that 99% or use cases are just a convenient way to gain full root for users with full root access. Configuring sudoers for the former use case has long known to be a bit dangerous, i.e it's easy to get it wrong and create privilege escalation holes.
- hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago[dead]