Using sudo to Keep Admins Honest? sudon't!

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 06 November 2006 11:14, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On 04/11/06, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. one less password to remember
> > 2. easy revoking of root privs without changing passwords
>
> 3. Fine-grained control of what users can run what commands as root
> 4. Access is logged, so you can see who has done what (grep sudo
> /var/log/auth.log)
>
> These two are very useful for groups of sysadmins at least, but I
> admit not really needed for a home desktop system.
>
I would guess that for home users, the greatest advantage of sudo would be 
greater protection against accidentally doing something stupid as root.

Sasha