Security of using sudo rather than su?

[Sven Wagschal]

Felipe A. Solana wrote:
> Totally agree with you. If you don't trust the user, don't 
> hand him/her the root password. However, I trust on myself, 
> so that's the reason why I configured my workstation to ask 
> me for root's password when using sudo.


So, why don't you use your own password then, as it is the default
setting, instead of configuring a root password? There is no need to
provide an extra root password when you can authenticate yourself by
your own one.