[Coco] Compiling LWTOOLS - root ?

[Jeff Teunissen]

The slight security difference between sudo and su on a regular Linux
distro is that the password being entered is yours, and not the root
password (which on most installations does not exist in order to
disallow root login entirely). Those individual actions themselves
don't make the machine more secure, but the combination (no root login
permitted, no root password to crack) does somewhat improve things and
makes it easier to lock down more by just editing sudoers.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 7:16 AM Patrick Ulland via Coco
<coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> Lots of sudo advice is taken out of context. In a commercial (not
> development) systems, sudo is very important, users can’t do ANYTHING
> unless they are in a short list of folks granted an even shorter list of
> commands.
>
>   In a regular Linux distro, default user can sudo anything - try ‘sudo
> bash’. So it’s only a password check now, might as well su once for the
> whole task. Just turn the light off when done:-)
>
>
>
> On 7/2/2023 8:53 AM, Rocky Hill via Coco wrote:
> >   Hi Charlie,
> >
> > You want to switch to the root user and then run make install as root?
> > Yup, that should work as well.
> >
> >
> >      On Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 09:36:48 AM EDT, coco at jechar.ca <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   Reply to Rocky Hill
> >
> > Can I use
> >
> > su
> > make install
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > sudo make install
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
>
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