Somebody call the Wahhhmbulance. This guy is outmoded. How about expanded security permissions for small groups of people in a larger directory? How about PAM auth plugins? How about escalation preventiontion for those same people, PLUS auditing instead of just seeing “root did something dumb”.
I don’t even get why this gent even bothered to wine and complain about this except that he doesn’t “get it”. This has been a solved issue for over 20 years now, and you don’t see large swathes of folks bitching and moaning about sudo at all.
If you need to provide tools that cross security boundaries then […] a small web app is better [than sudo].
A web app? Effin really!!? 🤨
I feel like an important thing he forgot to mention though is that it lets you allow multiple users to have root privileges without having to share passwords or SSH keys
Why would they need to share ssh keys? Ssh will happily accept dozens of allowed keys.
Oh true yeah I always forget about that
Indeed useful to not having to share passwords. I think sudo historically started as a way to let some users in a company for example manage printer server settings without having a root password. (And I believe it was Ubuntu in 2004 which promoted sudo and forced the default user after an installation to use sudo to perform root commands).
