On 08/02/2019 09:58, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 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.
>
+1.

That is handy on a desktop. Less so on a Pi where one suspects the whole
thing is a single use device.


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look exactly the same afterwards."

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