[sf-lug] /usr/sbin and now 'sudo -' vs 'su -'

[Rick Moen]

Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at SDF.ORG):

> At the same time, there _are_ some sysadmins who would rather
> heatedly promote the use of 'sudo su -' for non-root users to "run
> something in /sbin or /usr/sbin" as opposed to staying logged in as
> the root-user via 'su -' :-|

Use or non-use of sudo is actually an entirely _different_ discussion.
This is a fundamental wrenching of the subject away from what Alex was
talking about.

I've noticed it's mostly the *buntu-oriented novices who're obsessed
with sudo and want to discuss and debate its usage on *ix.  (For present
discussion, I'm disregarding edge cases where sudo, used carefully, is a
reasonable solution for particular usage models.)  Personally, I'm just
don't find such discussions interesting.

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