Monday, February 9, 2009

Don't run as root

Anyone who knows anythhing about GNU/Linux or FreeBSD security will tell you never, never, never to run anything as the root user.

Logging in as administrator in a Windows network is common, but doing so is discouraged in the SNU/Linux or FreeBSD community.

This is why whenever you need to run something as root, you use the sudo command.

Any system administrator can use the sudo command if you give them the password. to see how and when the sudo password is being used, check out /var/log/messages.

Because you're looking for all uses of suo, use grep command to find them.

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