On 01/17/2015 07:51 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > In article <mailman.17471.1420721626.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> >> But sure. If you want to cut out complication, dispense with user >> accounts altogether and run everything as root. That's WAY simpler! > > I didn't except this strawman argument from you. > Of course you need a distinction between doing system things as > root, and working as a normal user. You just don't need sudo.
I just don't see the distinction. What's the difference between having to type in a root password and having to type in your own administrative user password? Guess we're all just struggling to understand your logic here. On my laptop sudo has a huge advantage over su, and that is I can use my fingerprint reader to access root. Now I could set up root to accept a fingerprint as well which would work with su, but the sudo solution is much quicker to configure. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
