On 05/24/2010 05:17 PM, kalinix wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:07 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> Evil foolishness! One should always require a password for sudo. It's >> like an "Are You Sure?" prompt. > > Yeah, and why not put script that ask you hundreds of times, "Are you > sure?" And then, on one hundred an one time let you do exactly what you > wanted to do in the first place. > That's M$ crap. Linux users are much more smarter than that. Well, at > least a large part of them :D > > I'm always sure, even as I delete an entire partition. Oops. In reality, the reason for requiring a sudo password challenge is that you don't want someone who walks up to your computer to have root privs. At the very least, they have to know your password to use sudo. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
