On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:13:40 +0000
Chris Green  wrote:

> It's less for security surely than to provide auditing information
> which will show *who* was using root privilege.

 That is one of the more important benefits in a production
environment, although to do it well takes a carefully written sudoers and
auditing everything that can be run as root for shell escapes.

> On a single user system it doesn't really add anything, there's only
> 'me' going to be root.

 It does tend to encourage only using root privileges when they're
really needed rather than doing a bunch of routine things as root just
because one of them needed the privileges.

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