[Ffmpeg-devel] PATCH: Build Suffix

matthieu castet castet.matthieu
Thu Jul 28 19:40:48 CEST 2005


M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Mike Melanson said:
> 
>>M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>
>>>Charles Yates said:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:44 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>sudo is idiotic anyway. If you allow someone to sudo make install,
>>>>>they can have full root perms in a few seconds.
>>>>
>>>>LOL - this is true of course, but, umm, for most self administered
>>>>development machines, won't the user have full root perms anyway?
>>>
>>>
>>>Sure he will, and hence he has no need for sudo in the first place.
>>
>>	sudo still provides some useful features, like logging everything done
>>through sudo.
> 
> 
> ~root/.bash_history
> 
do a 'history -c` before log out, no to say you can erase 
~root/.bash_history file.
And yes if you have full root access with sudo you can clean the log 
file unless there are writen on a read-only disk or via a serial line...


Matthieu





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