Using an unprivileged user and `su`/unrestricted (not limited to a closed set of trustworthy executables by sudoers) `sudo` to obtain root perms on a typical GNU/Linux system without restrictive MAC polices doesn&
#39;t offer any considerable security improvement over using root directly for all activities the unprivileged user is used for. It does, though, provide plenty of feel-good inconvenience (typing all these `su`s when needed), even reinforced by some application developers, whose software refuses to run as root. Prove me wrong.