[Leaplist] sudo vs su

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 01 June 2009 11:01:59 Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> Ok, now that we're actually talking in the right topic, here's the
> _correct_ answer.
>
> su - input not logged, difficult to backtrace what was done in the event
> of a catastrophic screwup (rm -rf /)
>
> sudo - can easily track what was done. Everything put into sudo goes into
> /var/log/{hostname}/messages of the remote logging system. An 'rm -rf /'
> would be logged on the remote machine, and I would know *exactly* who was
> stupid enough to do such a thing, and can make them clean up the mess.
>
> I wonder which one is better from an SA standpoint?

Remote logging system? ;)

On personal systems with a single administrator, I am plenty comfortable using 
`su`.


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