FW: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

markzero mark at darklogik.org
Fri Jul 22 03:23:56 GMT 2005


On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:17:57PM -0700, whistles wrote:
> On 7/21/05, markzero <mark at darklogik.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:23:56PM -0400, ender wrote:
> > > Stephen Major wrote:
> > >
> > > >You are correct; I made a mistake on that one.
> > > >Sudo should not be forced upon anyone.
> > > >I do not care if sudo is part of the base system
> > > >I just 100% disagree with you wanting to replace su with sudo
> > > >
> > > >Look the other post that came from the dude before is 100% correct this is
> > > >a
> > > >dumb argument.
> > > >
> > > If sudo offered the opportunity for more features, but by default
> > > behaved exactly the same way as su, I would see no disadvantages to
> > > replacing su with sudo. Am i missing something?
> > 
> > What happens if you maintain systems that don't need sudo?
> > 
> > M
> > 
> 
> You get an _uneeded_  setuid binary 
> 
> Do a few extra built in features for some outweigh everyone gettting
> another setuid binary?
> I say no myself 
> my 2cents
> 

That was the point that I was not-so-subtly making. :)

M

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