[nzlug] OMG, I can no longer run 'sudo' !

[Jim Cheetham]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 12:03:51AM +1200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Actually ... tell me some good reasons why you believe sudo is better 
> than su on a typical Ubuntu one user = one admin desktop system? It 
> could well be that I'm missing something crucial in this concept ;-)

The main reason is to simplify the installer :-)
One less password to ask for, one less password to remember ...
thousands less questions on the forums :-)

It's a good-enough strategy for a simple GUI-based system; seems to work
for OS X as well as Ubuntu.

If you know what you're doing, enabling a root user is simple. So in
fact all that's being complained about is the *default* configuration of
the system, not it's operating state. 

And I take it that you're not objecting to the use of sudo on a
multi-admin machine? In real systems root is enabled; but the password
is not known; it's stored in a safe.

-jim