[olug] To Sudo or Not to Sudo, That is the Question

[Kevin]

In the environment at work where we have sudo set up properly, I never
su to root or login as such. At home, where I'm the only person that
can screw something up, I'll log in as root.

If you need tracking such as to identify just who it was that ran the
command `sudo rm -rf /*`, sudo is a great tool. If you need to give a
QA Analyst the ability to bounce a service without being able to
modify that service at all, it's a great tool. For a sandbox or a home
system, however, it's unnecessary.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Tony Reinke <treinke at gmail.com> wrote:
> T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>> I never use sudo.  As soon as a I open a terminal (yakuake) I type su
>> - and go straight to then running all commands as root.  If I have to
>> do something as a normal user, I open a new terminal tab.
>>
>> I find it extraneous to constantly use sudo.  That's just how I roll.
>>
>> What about everyone else?
>>
>> -- T. J.
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> It just depends on the system.  My systems at work, no one, not even me,
> is to su or log in directly.  At home, it just depends on what I am
> doing and the mood I am in.
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