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Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration"
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Bernd Zeimetz |
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Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration" |
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Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:45:59 +0100 |
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On 1/16/21 9:16 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> The tick is, I can hack you with sudo without putting anything in your
> path.
Oh nice, I can do that with su, too.
>> Saying that su is more secure than sudo is just silly.
>
> Not requiring passwords for root is silly. Letting any old phishing
> app hook you.
Thats why sudo requires a password (unless you remove that requirement).
>
>>>> Yeah, basically--but more specifically: fail early, fail loudly,
>>>> and fail benignly, i.e. fail out _before_ / _instead of_ doing
>>>> whatever damage you're concerned might result from `running
>>>> normally but with sudo'.
>>
>> For me the question is: why does it fail at all. Looking trough the
>> code I didn't find a reason why it should fail.
>
> As I expected, you don't understand how sudo works then.
>
> Trying the examples, with sudo, will teach you something.
I don't have a ubx chip here right now, but it fails with a sane error
message, no troubles at all. Strace doesn't show anything bad.
Please show what exactly fails for you with sudo and i'll try to fix it
when I found an usb cable and the ubx thing I have somewhere.
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