Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Mark Kirkwood]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:00 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>   
>> Sorry - very poor choice of wording, as a non-root user cannot
>> 'install' 
>> anything in the usual sense ...
>>     
>
> A user can install whatever he wants in his $HOME. As an example, see
> the firefox installations instructions:
>
> "The following instructions will install Firefox into your home
> directory, and only the current user will be able to run it.
>
>      1. Download Firefox from the Firefox download page to your home
>         directory.
>      2. Open a Terminal and extract the contents of the downloaded file.
>         cd ~
>         tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2
>      3. Close Firefox if it's open.
>      4. To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder.
>         ~/firefox/firefox"
>
>
>   

Indeed true - In the context of the discussion I was thinking of things 
like rootkits and kernel module keyloggers (or things from the Ubunti 
repo!) that require root privileges to install.

Cheers

Mark