Sorry, but I don't see how care or carelessness are defined by whether you go at it via `su' or `sudo'. I know I think twice before I do either. Of course, sudo has been around a lot longer than Ubuntu; I used to find it useful when I ran an AIX box, and wanted to give out granularly limited extra privileges to some users, which sudo lets you do, rather than giving out the root pw and praying.
Ubuntu *has* taken sudo to a new extreme, which isn't really necessary, and I fully expect it was done to protect Windows users who are used to having full admin rights all the time in Windows (usually not realizing just how dangerous that is) and who would otherwise routinely login as root on a *nix system. And sometimes people just forget to logout of the su shell. Running "sudo rm -f /" isn't really any easier or harder than running "su" followed by "rm -f /", is it? -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46731 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
