[Discuss] sudo

[farrisga at gmail.com]

Your conclusion is completely and totally wrong.

First, all Linux systems are multiuser, please read UNIX system design
as an example, google it. All Linux systems, if even just a single
human user, have multiple users attached to various pieces of software.
This can easily be seen by viewing the /etc/passwd file.  This is part
of it's security design.

I suggest you start by trying to understand security models and those
of UNIX as a beginning.  The road you are on will get you into trouble.

Cheers
George


On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 18:59 -0700, bctill wrote:
> Hi all --
> 
> It seems to me that the security and permissions model of Linux is
> based 
> on the false premise that each system has multiple users.  The
> opposite 
> is far more often true: each user has multiple systems, and this has 
> been the case for decades.  Even in an enterprise environment, it's
> the 
> network that has multiple users, not any one machine.
> 
> In consequence of this anachronism, almost every command I type
> starts 
> with sudo.  Not only is this excruciatingly cumbersome, but it
> seriously 
> undermines the vaunted safety benefits.
> 
> The reality is that I want almost every process I create to execute
> with 
> all my acces rights, and I am perfectly capapable of applying
> suitable 
> access restrictions in the relatively rare cases when I execute a 
> process that warrants them.
> 
> Is there a way to set up Linux to reflect this reality?
> 
> One thing I do like, by the way, is that I don't have to log in every
> time I turn my machine on because Linux can power down without
> logging 
> me out.
> 
> Or is it just Ubuntu that works this way?
> 
> Regards,
> -- Bernie.
> 
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