[433] in athena10
Re: root logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Aug 13 17:50:02 2008
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
"athena10@mit.edu" <athena10@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:49:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8A4EBD1A-4AB8-433D-9916-413F2D3E2BB9@mit.edu> (Evan Broder's
message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:40:27 -0700")
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>>>>> "Evan" == Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU> writes:
Evan> I'm also a fan of using sudo, because it works with the
Evan> "Athena 10 is normal Ubuntu with some custom packages"
Evan> thing. People who are used to Linux expect sudo, not su with
Evan> some obscure command to get the root password.
Unfortunately, sudo is rather problematic for non-local logins,
because it wants you to disclose your long-term password to a
potentially untrusted machine.
