Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Mark Kirkwood]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>   
>> OK, it's not a disaster and there are several ways around the issue, I
>> could give my wife's account sudo privileges or I could use apt-get from
>> the command line (having changed user to me).  However none of them is
>> particularly covenient and it's a pain if I want to install something
>> to fix an immediate 'on screen' problem.
>>     
>
>     None of them is convenient?  Copying one freaking line in sudoers and
> changing the username is beyond the pale!?  Cripes, man, get real!
>
>   
Agreed - does seem that (sorry Chris) you have missed the whole point of 
sudo  - certain *users* have 'admin'  rights on the machine, and certain 
do not. If you are logged in as a user w/o such you have to either log 
in again or give that user admin rights... pretty easy stuff either way.

The issue with 'real' root is that you will have to pass around 
*another* password - that in most cases will get written down - as non 
geek computer users will typically struggle to remember an additional 
one. This will tend to *decrease* your overall security.

regards

Mark