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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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Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:03:17 +0100 |
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On 1/15/21 3:15 AM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> "Sudo? Sudon't!"
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> https://gpsd.io/ubxtool-examples.html#_sudo_sudont
lines like
sudo is "Security Theater". Having sudo enabled on a computer makes it
demonstrably less secure.
If you must be root, then become, and stay root. Just sudon’t.
are your personal opinion and have nothing to do with gpsd. Nothing that
should be in a documentation about gpsd. I'm sure there is some linux
best practices book where they belong into.
Instead I'd suggest that you check the uid in ubxtool and fail if
somebody tires to run it as root, maybe add a --yes-i-know-what-i-do
flag to force running it as root.
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- ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Gary E. Miller, 2021/01/14
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- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Joshua Judson Rosen, 2021/01/15
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Gary E. Miller, 2021/01/15
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Joshua Judson Rosen, 2021/01/15
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Gary E. Miller, 2021/01/15
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. MIET, 2021/01/15
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Gary E. Miller, 2021/01/15
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Bernd Zeimetz, 2021/01/16
- Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration", Gary E. Miller, 2021/01/16