Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

I have just discovered another reason why I don't like sudo.

I have just installed xubuntu 8.10 on my wife's machine (to replace XP).
It has accounts for me and her and the children. My account has sudo
privileges.

When I want to install something I have to log out the current user
(if it's not me) then log in as me, then I can run synaptic. If it
had a root account I could simply run synaptic and give the root
password.

OK, it's not a disaster and there are several ways around the issue, I
could give my wife's account sudo privileges or I could use apt-get from
the command line (having changed user to me). However none of them is
particularly covenient and it's a pain if I want to install something
to fix an immediate 'on screen' problem.

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Chris Green

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