[Ffmpeg-devel] PATCH: Build Suffix

Diego Biurrun diego
Thu Jul 28 18:45:59 CEST 2005


On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:01:29AM -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >Charles Yates said:
> >
> >>On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:44 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> >>
> >>>sudo is idiotic anyway. If you allow someone to sudo make install,
> >>>they can have full root perms in a few seconds.

example?

> >Sure he will, and hence he has no need for sudo in the first place.
> 
> 	sudo still provides some useful features, like logging everything 
> done through sudo. It can also be used from a remote login, unlike 'su' 
> (per my knowledge).

su can be used remotely as well.  It's the standard way of becoming root
if you don't allow direct root logins.

Diego





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