[lamontcg]

I've always thought that sudo was almost totally useless.

One way or another it is going to be possible to exploit the permissions that are given to break out into a root shell.

As far as the idea that it "makes you think", given that I've absolutely typed it without thinking at all and rebooted prod, I'd say that's worthless as well.

Then there's all the silly tricks you need to learn in order to deal with shell redirection and handling of files that just get in the way of doing your job.

The only thing it does usefully is log all the commands executed, but you can hack up bash with honeypot logging patches to syslog every command executed and achieve the same thing.

[lamontcg]

There is a sort of narrow applicability of it so that you can grant some unprivileged operator the ability to run a script -- hopefully well audited with very limited number of knobs that it exposes -- to run with elevated privs. But the common use of it to give out access to nearly everything other than shell to system admin roles is pretty pointless and annoying.