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    Process supervsion

    What is the preferred method of supervising a process under FreeBSD? The best resource that I've found on this is here: http://dustin.github.com/2010/02/28/running-processes.html#freebsd Putting my important server processes into a file that contains "terminal initialization information"...
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    Why sudo? What is the best practice for administration?

    I appreciate the details. Proper use of sudo does make sense, especially in the context of having an audit trail. I'm assuming this benefit is null and void once you grant ALL, since the attacker can just go in a edit the logs. Principle of least privilege is it. My confusion arose from years...
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    Why sudo? What is the best practice for administration?

    It's all keys for me. Curiously, disabling SSH access to root and setting up a user that I can su from is the first thing I do on a fresh install of Debian. It seems that this practice is something that I can (and should) carry over to FreeBSD. Your post made me reconsider using toor as the...
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    Why sudo? What is the best practice for administration?

    I'm a new FreeBSD user. One of the things that always perplexed me with Linux distributions is the use of sudo. I kept hearing that sudo is better than using root, but it never made sense to me. People give ALL access to wheel group, then add "myuser" to wheel. Then use myuser to...
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