sudo functionality and security

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Monday 04 June 2007, Greg Booth wrote:
> at / work the same doing it as root or using sudo ?What's the reasoning
> behind putting a layer between the user and root ?

One of the main benefits is supposed to be accountability.  Everything you do 
with sudo gets logged, command by command, whereas once you're root, you're 
just root.  It's also supposed to discourage you from sitting at a root 
command line where you might forget who you are when you type "rm -rf /" or 
whatever.
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D. Michael McIntyre