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  • From: Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] serial networking and telnet server
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:00:51 -0400 (EDT)

> AFAIK su is no more secure than root. The security comes
> from running as user and only using su when you really need
> it.

If you want security, you want sudo, which lets a user run a
particular command as root, if he has been allowed to do so, and asks
for the user to confirm HIS password, so he doesn't need to know the
root password.





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