Using sudo to Keep Admins Honest? sudon't!

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

The guy says quite clearly that the point of the root account is not to keep a 
usert safe from his own mistakes. In my experience, even in Windows, having 
the security actually compromised is quite rare, if you ahve a decent virus 
scanner and firewall, and in Linux is almost non-existant. No, su does not 
keep a computer safe from attack, because, principally, it's not a terribly 
great danger anyway. Su, and sudo, do stop you from being able to do 
somethign stupid from your own account, a much mroe valuable protection. I 
knwo of at least one instance where this has saved a computer I was 
administering (but somebody else was using at the time). Sudo makes that 
protection even bettr by making it impossible to either log in a root or 
leave a root shell open (unless somebody uses sudo -s, not recommended, or 
sudo -i). I think that this protection is the most important thing in sudo, 
and far from the irrelevant nothing that the article's writer dismisses it 
as.

Sasha