Question regarding sudo equivalents

Got a question for you which you can answer on or off-list depending on your preferences - that is, if you want to answer at all! J  

If you need secured access to root (i.e. sudo-like functionality) what are you using to get that access? The reason I'm asking is because I was on a call with a customer this morning and they said sudo was old hat and no-one in their industry uses it any more. Now that's the first I've heard of that, as just about every customer I've dealt with apart from this particular customer is using sudo quite happily. I occasionally run across PowerBroker, but that's about it. I'd be interested to find what people are using, particularly since Enterprise Manager supports sudo or PowerBroker to get this functionality, and if people are moving away from that we need to look at broadening what we support in the product.  

Thanks!  

Pete

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