Another reason *to* use sudo?

[Eric Dunbar]

On 4/23/05, newtoubuntu <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I agree with this comment.  As I understand the argument, the whole
> point of this change from a traditional Unix/Linux way of administering
> a system, is to keep "lazy" people from just staying in root all the
> time (ie. they are protecting us from ourselves).  They admit that
> there is no real increase in security.
> 
> My main problem with this is that it is a break with the normal
> Linux/unix way of doing things.  Instead of being a platform to help
> people know the proper way of administering a system, by doing it on
> their own. You are creating some kind of new variant, that is actually
> harder to use.

Just a niggly little point... the most widely installed, and popular
*nix uses both sudo and su and disables root out of the box: Mac OS X
:-) :-).

Given that Ubuntu is fast moving towards becoming one of the most
popular Linux distros this would suggest to me that the sudo way of
doing things is quite successful and deemed user friendly ;-) (and,
isn't the widely ridiculed (from a security POV) Lindows using root as
the default USER account?)

Eric.