On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:47:09 +0100
Jostein Elvaker Haande <jehaande@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
erik ALL=(ALL) ALL
I've always heard people discouraging root logins or "su" and using sudo instead. I know how sudo works and how to fine-tune system access with it, but is the above suggestion in any way different or safer than a root login?
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