Uttered Stuart Ellis s.ellis@fastmail.co.uk, spake thus:
It's really a workaround for the fact that sudo isn't configured by default. I didn't think that I could safely use sudo in the example commands, since even if the Hardening Guide was up and could be linked to, there's no guarantee that the user/admin would have successfully gone through the setup beforehand.
Point taken. I thought an un-configured sudo would degenerate to "su -c" but I was wrong. (I allow myself one error per year, and now I'm up to 1952 ;-)
Cheers