for everyone whose sick of sudo read this

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:01:30PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> my friend
> i run one computer.
> i am the only user aside from my parents.
> and i use linux which is supposedly the safest of all OS.
> i just want to help ppl who had same prob as me.
> i do not knw better.
> i know it is probaly safer to not use root.
> but i am for user friendliness and thats what ubuntu is for.
> yet this "feature" forces users to use shell for simplest of things.
> come on

Understood. But Linux is more secure than Windows in part
because it makes certain things harder than Windows does.
Getting rid of the root user is one of Ubuntu's security
advantages. If Linux is "the safest of all OSes," that's
because of various security designs like getting rid of the
root user.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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