begin  quoting Rick Funderburg as of Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 03:43:28PM -0800:
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> Why not just disable remote root logins?  One argument against sudo is 
> that generally user passwords may be easier to compromise than the root 
> password.

That's generally why you want to limit the programs run with sudo.

I find that "sudo sh" is often faster than trying to remember what the
root password is for a machine.  And every time I run that, I think "oh,
what a silly boy am I!"

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