From: slash@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 6/8/23 07:33, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
   > On Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:21:57 +0200, slash wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 6/6/23 22:43, King Beowulf wrote:   
   >>> On Slackware sudo, useful in some cases, is redundant to run su for   
   >>> root login shell.   
   >>>   
   >>> beowulf@gandalf: ~ $ su -   
   >>> Password:   
   >>   
   >> Of course, but this requires you to know the root's password.   
   >   
   > That is true, but any user trusted to do "sudo -i" has the power to more   
   > or less temporary change the root password and should then also be   
   > considered trusted to know the root password.   
      
   All true, but why insert the root password if you can spare keyboard   
   consumption by using sudo -i? And why waste the time to put you in   
   sudoers if you have the root password?   
   We might as well conclude that sudo is useless. :-)   
      
      
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