Re: [Trisquel-users] sudo make you system less secure

[onpon4]

That's not true. Sudo is an alternative to logging in as root directly which  
can be configured to give each user any number of privileges. In that sense,  
it can be much more secure; you can give each user only permission to do  
exactly what they need to be able to do, and nothing more. Whereas with  
logging in as root, you need to give someone all the root permissions, or  
none.

On typical user systems, like Trisquel's default settings, there is only a  
distinction between admins and non-admins: admins can do everything with  
sudo, and non-admins can do nothing with sudo. But that's not the most that  
sudo can do.