[Ffmpeg-devel] PATCH: Build Suffix

Mike Melanson mike
Thu Jul 28 18:01:29 CEST 2005


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. It can also be used from a remote login, unlike 'su' (per 
my knowledge).

-- 
	-Mike Melanson





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