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[Jerald Sheets]

>
> What's the difference between "sudo mkfs /dev/hda8" and runing
> "mkfs /dev/hda8" as root?
>


Jim, it's not different in effect, but the practice of having a layer  
of security between you and any command run is a good one.

You as well as I know that sudo has a wildcard access you can add to  
a user.  The  fact  that there's a shim between your email app and  
running programs as root and between your browser and running as root  
is very sensible, don't you think?

I spend maybe 5 minutes installing and configuring sudo for my user,  
and that's it.  How is this a burden on your configuration again?  I  
can do everything I need to do as the root user through sudo with a  
single entry sudo configuration line.  I think that the  
conffiguration argument is a non-issue.


Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
McKesson, Inc.
404.293.8762