Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Brian]

Use sudo for single admin commands and sudo su for an admin session.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I have just discovered another reason why I don't like sudo.
>
> I have just installed xubuntu 8.10 on my wife's machine (to replace XP).
> It has accounts for me and her and the children.  My account has sudo
> privileges.
>
> When I want to install something I have to log out the current user
> (if it's not me) then log in as me, then I can run synaptic.  If it
> had a root account I could simply run synaptic and give the root
> password.
>
> OK, it's not a disaster and there are several ways around the issue, I
> could give my wife's account sudo privileges or I could use apt-get from
> the command line (having changed user to me).  However none of them is
> particularly covenient and it's a pain if I want to install something
> to fix an immediate 'on screen' problem.
>
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