[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[Alan Evans]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> You seem to be missing the point that I'm talking about a home box where
> you're the only person using it.  You set it up, you set the root
> password and I see no reason not to use it (with su) for admin tasks.
> Using sudo when you have the root password just seems silly to me.

And you seem to be missing the point that some others are talking
about. Some admin tasks are performed by some admins extremely
frequently. Using sudo allows them to avoid typing the root password
75 times a day just to remind the system over and over again that,
yes, they do have the authority to do this.

It's the same reason that I set up domain keys for servers that I log
into constantly. I know all the passwords, but I don't want to retype
them every 15 minutes just to reestablish my authority to do again the
same thing I do all day long.

-Alan