why does every distro ship with sudo when you can just <code>

Dumb frog poster

I run Debian 8 Jessie that I got form their website and on first run it was missing Sudo line commands I had to install it after I got online.

>>61318094
Learn what sudo does then complain about it

>>61318094
Newfag. Most distros don't even com with sudo.

>>61318094
why even use su, just use root as your account

Debian gives you a choice in the installer: either set a root password or it installs sudo and gives the main account sudo access. I learned how this works when I did it wrong:

$ sudo apt-get install whatever
sudo: command not found
$ sudo apt-get install sudo
sudo: command not found
$ sudo su
sudo: command not found
$ su
password for root:
# apt-get install sudo
[...]
# exit
$ sudo visudo
User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

etc.

>>61318094
sudo is useful so you can give users root access without giving them the root password.