Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:32:46PM +0700, Robert Parker wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Pierre Frenkiel
> <pierre.frenkiel at laposte.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:
> >> You can 'sudo su -'
> >
> >   then, X11 doesn't work
> 
> That may well be for security reasons. The Ubuntu team probably have
> forgotten more about security than we users will ever know.
> I'll repeat that - they know what they are doing - we users don't.
> 
Well if you want to play that sort of game I've been using and
administering Unix boxes for much longer than Ubuntu has existed.

-- 
Chris Green