Another reason *to* use sudo?

[Brian Astill]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:30 am, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> isn't the widely ridiculed (from a security POV) Lindows using root as
> the default USER account?)

So did/does Knoppix.  That is obviously an insecure way of doing things.

However, granting sudo to user is arguably little better, if one application 
of password grants root access for some time.
Of course, su is worse - root is there indefinitely.

The best system seems to me to have sudo only, which has to be used every 
time, and root access if "heavy" work has to be done.

No system is perfect, so I guess yer pays yer money and takes yer choice!  :-)

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Regards,
Brian