[Ffmpeg-devel] PATCH: Build Suffix

matthieu castet castet.matthieu
Thu Jul 28 19:37:33 CEST 2005


Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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?
> 
install:
         sh
> 
>>>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.
sudo avoid to give root user password and as you use your password, you 
know it and don't write root password somewhere...

Matthieu





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