why sudo?

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:10 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 of June 2005 07:00, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> 
> > You don't need to set the root password.  Just use “sudo -H -s”.
> 
>  Correct me, if I'm wrong, but that's a sudo call that would call a root shell 
> in root's home. Not exaclly ,,enabling root''. Same thing as su - but you 
> could not login as root untill password is set.
> 
True.  The question, though, is why enable root account in the first
place when you could do everything with “sudo”?  And, in the very rare
occasions when working with a lot of super-user stuff, you could use
“sudo -H -s”?

Besides, I just want to share something that I thought you all would be
interested to know.  I didn't want to by a picky or a jerk.

Anyway, thanks for sharing.
Ziyad.