Originally Posted by Vyper
Many distributions no longer (by default) allow the root user to log in, instead giving users a method to temporarily gain root privileges for the duration of the single command. Hence sudo.
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I don't find this to be true. Rather, most distributions allow the user to su to root. I still don't use a distribution with sudo, and never really liked it in the first place due to the fact that it doesn't always ask for the password (its inconsistency seems like a security flaw to me, despite the fact that it is rather good at guessing whether or not you are actually the user).
I still su to root, though I do have my box set up such that you cannot log in as root, you must su to it.