[OpenIndiana-discuss] bug reports

Kevin J. Woolley kjw at javabunny.net
Sun Mar 20 19:43:06 UTC 2011


On 20 March 2011 07:13, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree it's not a major issue given the massive problem posed by the browsers & plugins.  I was trying to point out that you really can't protect the user from their own ignorance.  If someone lacks the wits to log out after executing "/bin/su", they won't be any safer running "sudo".

I'm not sure there's any programmatic replacement for common sense.
:)  su vs. sudo vs. pfexec vs. the rest of the world is a discussion
that seems to happen cyclically, with no conclusion.

Cheers,

kjw



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