Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 11:20 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> 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.

True too, but even an app that is installed in $HOME and runs only with
the user's rights can do damage (can open ports, etc)