The stack exchange post is asking specifically for Desktop users. But for shared linux servers, sudo is very useful. It allows controlling which users are allo

The stack exchange post is asking specifically for Desktop users. But for shared linux servers, sudo is very useful. It allows controlling which users are allowed to administer the system. (Generally, people who aren't sudoers can only view log files or do other readonly things). It's much better than letting people login as root directly since it keeps an audit trail of who is actually administering the device (they will show up using the `users` command, for example). I rarely use sudo to do any fine-grained access control - it's almost always an all-or-nothing configuration - specific users are granted full access (with passwords), and everybody else gets none. I suppose this means that I use only 5% of it's functionality, but this 5% is quite useful.