About root or administrative account

[Matthew Flaschen]

David B Teague wrote:
> Please note that I expect to receive answers supportive of *buntu from 
> this list. However, I'm looking for incisive answers that tell me why 
> the *buntu solution to the administrative annoyance is truly better than 
> the more traditional *nix solution, yet tell me the down side of not 
> having a root account.

I like sudo because it is a convenient way to execute a single command
as root, without the risk of leaving a root shell open by mistake.
However, I also set a root password (sudo passwd) and change
/etc/sudoers to require the root password when sudoing.  That way, my
user password isn't enough to gain root.

I do open a root shell occasionally, but not very often.

Matthew Flaschen