On 02/10/2016 08:48 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 02/10/2016 04:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Surely this takes substantially more time than sudo?
> Presumably you have to give the argument in quotes,
> and then give the password?
>
So? Time is not everything, and being retired, I have all that I need.
> And doesn't it give an alternative way for the hacker
> to get the superuser password, eg by key-logging?
> So is it even safer in the end?
If the hacker's gotten through my firewall and installed a key logger,
it's already too late.
I am a little late in the discussion. Is your username
in the wheel group?
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Joseph Loo
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