> It’s a funny artifact because most people today use, and have only used Linux in a “single user” context. The “local system administrator” is me!
Except if you're on a team of sysadmins running a fleet of systems, either a whole bunch of cattle and/or numerous pets.
There are numerous occasions that I have to SSH to look at something on an individual system, and it's best practice to go in as yourself and then sudo-to-root if you need to poke into privileged parts. App folks can also be allowed in unprivileged and become the service users if needed.
The fact that sudo can hook into LDAP also means we can centralize privilege escalations with groups and (particular) hosts.
Except if you're on a team of sysadmins running a fleet of systems, either a whole bunch of cattle and/or numerous pets.
There are numerous occasions that I have to SSH to look at something on an individual system, and it's best practice to go in as yourself and then sudo-to-root if you need to poke into privileged parts. App folks can also be allowed in unprivileged and become the service users if needed.
The fact that sudo can hook into LDAP also means we can centralize privilege escalations with groups and (particular) hosts.
Lots of HPC out there as well that is multi-user.