Re: FW: Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

From: markzero (mark_at_darklogik.org)
Date: 07/22/05

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    Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:07:07 +0100
To: ender <ender@tog.net>

    On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:23:56PM -0400, ender wrote:
    > Stephen Major wrote:
    >
    > >You are correct; I made a mistake on that one.
    > >Sudo should not be forced upon anyone.
    > >I do not care if sudo is part of the base system
    > >I just 100% disagree with you wanting to replace su with sudo
    > >
    > >Look the other post that came from the dude before is 100% correct this is
    > >a
    > >dumb argument.
    > >
    > If sudo offered the opportunity for more features, but by default
    > behaved exactly the same way as su, I would see no disadvantages to
    > replacing su with sudo. Am i missing something?

    What happens if you maintain systems that don't need sudo?

    M 

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