Advantages of 'sudo' Over 'su'?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:16:38PM -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> I've been curious about this since I run OS X as well. What are
> the advantages of disabling the root account and adding a user
> or group to sudoers with root priveleges? Can a user given the
> same priveleges as root in sudoers do everything that root can?
> If so, why bother disabling root? The sudoer could just type
> sudo su and get the same result as su if root wre enabled?

The original reason we disabled the root account was simply that it was
two more questions we could avoid asking at installation time. :-)

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]