Fedora nonsense

Luke-Jr luke at dashjr.org
Wed Nov 18 22:11:43 CST 2009


On Wednesday 18 November 2009 07:01:56 pm Jestin Stoffel wrote:
> Seriously though, how is that any different than elevating to root
> privileges with 'sudo' to install?  You still don't need the root
> password, so I suppose it's just saving my mom a step before she borks
> her system.

sudo at least prompts for the user's password by default (which worms won't 
have). also, to use sudo, you must be configured in the sudoers file to run 
said command.


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