Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:46:03PM +1000, Res wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> 
> 
> > backups and beer... Once an intruder has local access, all bets are off.
> 
> True, but its still a far safer bet than using sudo on a general publicly 
> accesible box. There exists risks in everything, the threat level 
> depends on how much you want to help the norti lil kiddies by making it 
> X much easier, or harder, for them.
> 
Yes, it's not black/white or right/wrong, as far as I'm concerned
that's what this whole thread is about.  It's nearly all useful
discussion and stuff that I will try and remember so that I can make a
rational decision between the default Ubuntu 'use sudo' and the
alternative of making it possible to log in as root. 


Maybe I am sometimes a little more outspoken on the side of having a
root login than I should be, if so I apologise, but it has provoked
lots of (mostly) useful discussion.

-- 
Chris Green