At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43:14 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote: > > How does that help? > > Its considered proper convention to use "sudo" on individual commands > instead of changing the user to root. With sudo you can water down the > ability of a user, eg can't use the shutdown command. > > I don't know if you can disable su -, but that would be the plus of this style. Ubuntu does it by giving root a disabled password. The su command is not disabled exactly, but you cannot use su to become root (unless you already are (eg 'sudo su -' which is kind if redundant). > > -- > Best Regards, > > Justin Bull > So Hip it MHz Studios > www.sohipitmhz.com > > http://www.sohipitmhz.com/pubkey.txt (PGP Public Key) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/