[Discuss] sudo

[bctill]

Hi all --

It seems to me that the security and permissions model of Linux is based 
on the false premise that each system has multiple users.  The opposite 
is far more often true: each user has multiple systems, and this has 
been the case for decades.  Even in an enterprise environment, it's the 
network that has multiple users, not any one machine.

In consequence of this anachronism, almost every command I type starts 
with sudo.  Not only is this excruciatingly cumbersome, but it seriously 
undermines the vaunted safety benefits.

The reality is that I want almost every process I create to execute with 
all my acces rights, and I am perfectly capapable of applying suitable 
access restrictions in the relatively rare cases when I execute a 
process that warrants them.

Is there a way to set up Linux to reflect this reality?

One thing I do like, by the way, is that I don't have to log in every 
time I turn my machine on because Linux can power down without logging 
me out.

Or is it just Ubuntu that works this way?

Regards,
-- Bernie.