🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-06-09, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-06-07, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> On 06/07/2018 06:18 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>>> seems to me overriding a standard utility would almost always be the 
>>> wrong solution to a problem.
>>
>> Maybe, maybe not.
>>
>> Keep in mind, I'm only superseding / augmenting system commands that I 
>> want to run differently than they do by default.
>>
>> I have ~/bin first in my path.  I have a number of utilities that 
>> require root permission (gained via sudo) that I run ALL THE TIME (as in 
>> daily, some many times a day).
>>
>> So I have a wrapper [1] that I put in ~/bin for things like ip, netstat, 
>> ifconfig, route, etc so that I can type commands into my unprivileged 
>> user's shell exactly the same way that I would type them in root's shell.
>
> Most of those don't need root privileges for reading (although some
> Linux distributions annoyingly put them in /sbin and don't put /sbin
> in $PATH for normal users).  I think it's useful to have them
> available and to know you cannot break anything unless you
> specifically choose to.
>
>> I don't have to worry about needing to prefix commands with sudo (et al) 
>> or not.
>> I don't have to worry about using different formats of commands in 
>> different contexts.
>> I don't have to worry about escaping special characters to make it 
>> through sudo.
>> Etc.
>
> I'd worry about scripts picking up the wrong copy of ip, netstat and
> friends, and run stuff as root (and log a sudo use) when they really
> just want read access.
>
>> I personally consider removing all the above mental load and making the 
>> computer do what I want to be a good thing.  Thus I consider it to be 
>> the proper solution.
>
> My time to stick my neck out:
>
> I don't like sudo.  I'd much rather su to root in a separate shell,
> and carefully do my privileged work there, then log out when I'm done.
> I don't want dangerous command lines to end up in my shell history,
> where I can by accident execute them again and (if I ran sudo
> recently) have them execute without warning.
>
> Sudo blurs the distinction between me and the root user, it seems to
> me.
>
> That way I also don't have to understand the sudo config files.
>
>
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