Ask HN: Do you have sudo on your company-issued machine? I'm wondering if people have infosec restrictions about sudo access for their work machines. |
Ask HN: Do you have sudo on your company-issued machine? I'm wondering if people have infosec restrictions about sudo access for their work machines. |
once blessed with local admin rights, developers manually invoke a utility to grant themselves temporary admin permission for a limited time period each time they wish to sudo. this sounds worse than it is in practice, provided one doesn't need to sudo continually.
Current work sent tech employees a blank computer and any licenses we ask. So basically, you'll have sudo if you install it.
On the other hand, we are often reminded to upgrade our stack / to check if we have been compromised, etc.
Ultimately most of the contributions I'm looking for are plaintext and reviewable -- none of the above properties should be blockers, so the way to maximize contributions is to allow for all of them.
One can test this in scripts with
sudo -n