With sudo, there's a five minute time when you can access the root privs, later you've re-enter the password. When you login as root, there's no such time limit, if you leave your box on in root account, somebody can misuse it.
If you browse internet using root account, it is very much possible that some javascript or some flash app, can take control over your system which is strictly impossible when you use the user account. With root account, applications running can write to the binary directories, /bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib and can place a malware there. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
