[GRLUG] Distro's - was GRLUG test comment

Tim Schmidt timschmidt at gmail.com
Thu May 4 15:36:15 EDT 2006


On 5/4/06, David Pembrook <david at pembrook.net> wrote:
>  I was playing around with distro's that day.. I remember it looked good and
> I had to fix it. I hacked mine to operate as I expect it to. My only point
> is:
>
>  No matter how you slice it, the root user is taken away by default and
> replaced with sudo. I use sudo on other systems when I want to and su to
> root when I want to.
>
>  Again every issue I have with it can be addressed, its Linux. Its personal
> taste.
>
>  Dave

I'm sorry Dave, I don't follow your logic...  You have /root, you have
a way to escalate privileges, what are you missing?  Exactly what can
you not do with sudo as efficiently or effectively as you can with su?
 How are you doing things differently?

--tim


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