[OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

[Dan Swartzendruber]

Ken Gunderson wrote:
>
> Which is useful in environments where you have jr. sysadmins, backup
> operators, etc., i.e. different roles, not all of which you want/trust
> to have full root access, so tasks can be limited to only those
> necessary to fulfill that role.
>
> On a boxes where I, or one or two others I know and trust, are the only
> admin(s), I find sudo a complete pita and never use it.  When I want
> root it's because I need to get something done and sudo just gets in my
> way and adds unnecessary typing w/o any benefit - if I'm going to make a
> typo or brain fart so bad as to blow up the box, sudo is not going to
> save me.  Much better to actually have a # in your prompt and adhere to
> the old sysadmin adage of sitting on your hands for 5 seconds before
> hitting enter...
>
> The point being here, that while sudo does have it's place, it's not the
> magic bullet some would have us believe it is.
>
>   
Agreed.  In general, my first and only command (as myself) after logging 
in, is: 'sudo -i'.