su: blacklist users

Michael Hipp michael
Fri May 26 20:29:14 PDT 2006


> From: "Man-wai CHANG" <mwchang at i-cable.com>
> To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Subject: Re: su: blacklist users
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:04:15 +0800
> 
> 
> > So far as I know, the best way to control access to who has access to 
> > super-user privileges is with "sudo".  My understanding is that what sudo 
> > is for.
> 
> sudo is no replacement for su. It's not convenient if you have lots of 
> commands to run.

I find sudo to be an excellent replacement for su.

  sudo -H bash

Michael



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