On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 11:50 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > passwordless sudo seems quite risky to me (and seems to defeat the > purpose of sudo). Yes, and no... If I "sudo something" the password I'm going to type is my own, which I already know. Though it does offer an "are you sure" moment to think before doing something bad. The other thing it does is only allow specific users to use sudo to do something (however they authenticate), can limit what commands they can use with it, and logs what they do. "su" is more risky. You have full root access, and the root password, and very little to indicate who did anything to the system. Having said that, on my system where I am the sole user, I'll only use sudo if I know I'm doing just one thing. If I have to do a series of things, I will "su -" and do them all as root. It's just too tedious to do "sudo some-command" over and over. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
