> Two things... in the Ubuntu setup, if you update sudoers to allow sudo only
> for apt-get to run as root, you've completely locked yourself out of root
> otherwise to maintain your system... without booting into single user mode
> or apt-get installing a package with an installation script to give you
> additional access, or taking advantage of some other exposure. So it's not
> exactly that cut and dry in real-world use (though otherwise a perfectly
> true statement!).
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting doing that for all users. You can manage
sudo permissions on a per-user and/or per-group basis.
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