Security - LL has one password - other distros can have more ...

[trinidad]

Being a regular Debian user with several computers networked together and nodes for random attachment I have always used a root password and user login password and no sudo users. Opinions vary on this subject but a lot of what is discussed on this link goes to the real problem of sudo users on a network. It is important to remember that home users, and small business users really don't have to worry about security of the scope that large businesses do. On a large network it can be argued that more privilege escalated files means more security risk so in that sense sudo is a nuisance. It is also important to remember that any unencrypted system can be hacked into bypassing all the passwords anyway, Linux, Windows, and MAC usually with nothing more than an Ubuntu live disk. Also updates to the root file system load in a root shell, that is they happen in the background on a sudo system without a root password installing when you reboot unseen by you. Some administrators don't like that either, given that it is not simple to interrupt them and that things could be missed.

https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/unix-li...ot-enough/

TC