On Saturday 19 December 2015 19:45:14 Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Letting any user do anything just by typing sudo before a command is a
> rather peculiar way of implementing security, be it the old Wheezy, or
> the newer Ubuntu (and its siblings).

Hear, hear.   I know someone who upgraded to the next version of Ubuntu from 
an LTS version,*by* *mistake*.  Thereby kyboshing her most necessary piece of 
professional software.

There are indeed some convincing arguments for having sudo, with limited 
privileges, available in a multi user environment, but in a single user 
environment, where that single user has full root privileges available as 
sudo, it is a disaster waiting to happen.."Most people", when asked to input 
their password do so automatically without thinking.  If asked for root's 
password, they do at least have to think.

Lisi