On 2015-01-08, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/08/2015 10:02 AM, Steve Hayes wrote: >> On 08 Jan 2015 12:43:33 GMT, alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) >> wrote: >> >>> I don't trust sudo because it is too complicated. (To the point that >>> I removed it from my machine.) I do >> >> How do you do that? >> >> I avoided Ubuntu because it had sudo, and then discovered that Fedora >> had it as well. > > Of all the distro choosing criteria, this has to be one of the more > bizarre ones I've heard.
That's what I thought. Especially since it's trivial to remove sudo. Some system admin stuff on *buntu may require some extra thought since the standard pointy-clicky recipes might not work exactly as described in various fora, but anybody worried about security to the extent that they refuse to use sudo probably shouldn't be using pointy-clicky admin tools to start with. > You could at least choose something fashionable to avoid, like > systemd. Or whatever the "desktop du jour" is for <distro-to-be-avoided>. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Didn't I buy a 1951 at Packard from you last March gmail.com in Cairo? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list