[Leaplist] sudo vs su

[Jim Hartley]

Remote logging system???? I don't have a remote logging system. I have 
just my one desktop machine here. In that context, does "sudo" have any 
advantages? I am assuming that **I** am not going to do something stupid 
like "rm -rf /"

Jim Hartley

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?
> 
> 

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