Shit meme, I know.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      15 hours ago

      -i asks for an interactive session

      I use sudo su because running su with no options also gets you an interactive session without having to type anything but letters and a space

      Both of these are for when you want a session as root which is nearly never necessary, but sometimes it’s more convenient that a set of commands preceded by sudo

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        4 hours ago

        I figured out that it just drops you into a root shell, which is a bad thing.

        You should try to never login as root. It’s just bad security hygiene.

        I run sudo apt update, put in my password, thenonce my repos are updated, I run sudo apt upgrade. Password only has to be input once, unless I get busy and forget to do the upgrade command, in which case I haven’t left a root shell unattended for however long it took me to realize that I left the shell open.

        That way if someone else comes along and tries to do stuff, they only have the limited privilege level that my user does.

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          11 hours ago

          It even gets worse - I keep screen sessions open with one screen running root

          Security and convenience balance, and if something has compromised my sudoer account they have root anyway

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            4 hours ago

            if something has compromised my sudoer account they have root anyway

            So instead of making the thief break a window, you would rather just leave the door open?