On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 09 December 2013 18:55:33 Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, I don't like it and always want a root password. As you >>>> say, this is and has been contentious. >> >> Having a password for root and having sudo installed and set up >> isn't an either/or proposition. > > We have already agreed surely that horses vary with courses. I don't > trust myself and would never use sudo, so it is safer if I do not > have it on my box. Moreover, during installation I think that one is > offered either/or, not both. (Which is what we were discussing.)
The discussion may have started as a discussion of sudo at install time but I was replying to a post that was basically declaring sudo to be evil. You can't trust yourself with sudo but you can trust yourself with su or login root access... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sz=1O=l-ui6wwgqzm33cptwl9xt4a9yr_zjlvc3+9p...@mail.gmail.com
