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PlanetLab creates a 'more advanced sudo'

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Computerworld Australia; By Joab Jackson 		Mail this story
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Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys

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mrider ·
I wonder what is the ratio of computers which have first.user ALL=(ALL) ALL to properly configured sudo instances. Not to diminish these folks accomplishment, my point simply being that probably a great majority already don't use the power that they have available.
jdixon ·
Well, since I'd think no one set up with sudo access would qualify as a properly configured instance, that would pretty much translate to Ubuntu and it's derivatives vs. everyone else, wouldn't it?
mrider ·
Quoting:Well, since I'd think no one set up with sudo access would qualify as a properly configured instance, that would pretty much translate to Ubuntu and it's derivatives vs. everyone else, wouldn't it?


Agreed.

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