Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Bart Silverstrim]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris G wrote:

>> In the typical home environment a computer has only one user.
> 
>     Two if you have root enabled.  Unless you're going to set both passwords
> to the same in which case you might as well use sudo.
> 
>     Don't get me wrong, I agree with you.  I don't think in an environment
> where a single user will be using root there's a need for sudo.  But honestly,
> in Ubuntu that is easy enough for you to fix.

I thought part of the good thing with sudo is that programs can't try 
doing admin-level fubaring without prompting you. With root things do 
what they want when they want and never prompt because the privileges 
are already there.

So...running something with a trojan embedded to write to a system area 
would fail or pull up a prompt before it could successfully do something.