AndyC wrote:
Buzza wrote:

Umm and the difference between and executable running via sudo and natively at a shell ?


Sudo forces you to re-authenticate for one. Perhaps more importantly, you only run tasks with elevated priviliges when you absolutely have to.

You can do the same under Windows with LUAs and RunAs, it's just not quite as transparent to Joe Public.


So lets just say that both platforms have the same capabilies, and that the statement

Beer28 wrote:


It is not administrative by default because nobody on linux runs their desktop as root.


was just crap.