Re: ✘"Sudo? Sudon't!" and "Saving U-blox Configuration"

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 1/16/21 9:16 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> The tick is, I can hack you with sudo without putting anything in your
> path.

Oh nice, I can do that with su, too.

>> Saying that su is more secure than sudo is just silly.
> 
> Not requiring passwords for root is silly.  Letting any old phishing
> app hook you.

Thats why sudo requires a password (unless you remove that requirement).

> 
>>>> Yeah, basically--but more specifically: fail early, fail loudly,
>>>> and fail benignly, i.e. fail out _before_ / _instead of_ doing
>>>> whatever damage you're concerned might result from `running
>>>> normally but with sudo'.  
>>
>> For me the question is: why does it fail at all. Looking trough the
>> code I didn't find a reason why it should fail.
> 
> As I expected, you don't understand how sudo works then.
> 
> Trying the examples, with sudo, will teach you something.

I don't have a ubx chip here right now, but it fails with a sane error
message, no troubles at all. Strace doesn't show anything bad.

Please show what exactly fails for you with sudo and i'll try to fix it
when I found an usb cable and the ubx thing I have somewhere.



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