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Chris Ridd  
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 More options May 16, 1:12 pm
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris
From: Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:12:47 +0100
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 1:12 pm
Subject: Re: Error installing sudo
On 2008-05-16 18:00:33 +0100, "santiago...@yahoo.com"
<santiago...@yahoo.com> said:

> I'm just curious,

> but why use sudo? Doesn't su -c do essentially the same thing? Or why
> not just plain su?

Sudo's more configurable, you can configure it so that you don't need
the target account's password, and it leaves more of an audit trail.

Can pfexec be used instead?

> Plus sunfreeware stuff always installs into /usr/local.

Yes, and without proper dependencies. Even their IPS packages are broken :-((

Blastwave's *much* better, but sadly their IPS repository's pretty busted.

Cheers,

Chris


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