Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:38:15PM -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Res wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> > 
> >> 	In other words, it's all about personal choice. You can go ahead and
> >> shoot yourself in the foot, if you like. I choose not to.
> > 
> > no, you cant make that assumption, because to do so, says your favouring 
> > sudo, which for reasons stated before may not be everybody case,
> > 
> 	Actually, all I was saying that everyone has a _choice_ as to how they 
> want to do admin work on their Linux box. You do it you way, someone 
> else can do it their way. There is no one perfect answer, it's all 
> circumstantial.
> 
Yes, but as I have pointed out, if you set up a root login on Ubuntu
some things don't work any more because they *assume* the default sudo
setup, services-admin is a case in point.

-- 
Chris Green