Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the
>
>de facto administrator and they know to just su root, run the command and get
>the hell out of dodge there is *NO* benefit of sudo.
>
1. Training oneself not to run things as root is one benefit of sudo, so
that you don't mess up when you go to another machine.

2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a single X
client/app as root is different than running all of X as root.

3. Logging, provided by sudo, is not merely for the sake of knowing who
did what; sometimes it's for who did what when, etc.

I'll grant that there may be considerably less reason to use sudo on a
single-user machine, but to claim that there is "*NO* benefit of sudo"
is simply incorrect.

-- 
Kent