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Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

J.G.Harston Silver badge

If I want to do some admin tasks I log on as an admin user, into the admin user's environment, with ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN plastered across the backdrop. Allowing non-admin users to temporarily do admin-permission tasks encourages laziness, sloppiness and mistakes.

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