Questions about Ubuntu

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 19, 2008, at 07:36, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I don't agree that it is a bug. When I first installed Ubuntu, I  
> was used to the root password, and it was confusing for a while.

So, what benefits are there to using the root password vs. using sudo  
and the user password?  I can think of lots of benefits for using  
sudo, including privilege isolation, environment management,  
auditing, transient/temporary access, and logging, but none for the  
root password approach, except historical.

-Bill

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