Re: Reporting missing package during install
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 09 December 2013 18:55:33 Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I don't like it and always want a root password. As you
>>>> say, this is and has been contentious.
>>
>> Having a password for root and having sudo installed and set up
>> isn't an either/or proposition.
>
> We have already agreed surely that horses vary with courses. I don't
> trust myself and would never use sudo, so it is safer if I do not
> have it on my box. Moreover, during installation I think that one is
> offered either/or, not both. (Which is what we were discussing.)
The discussion may have started as a discussion of sudo at install
time but I was replying to a post that was basically declaring sudo to
be evil.
You can't trust yourself with sudo but you can trust yourself with su
or login root access...
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