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

[Luke Dashjr]

On Sunday 16 November 2008 07:40:08 pm Tim & Alethea Larson 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?
>
> I use "sudo su" a lot, at least on my own machines, just on principle.

'sudo su' should be 'sudo -i -H' ;)

I use 'sudo <cmd>' when I only need to do one thing as root.

I don't run as root (effectively what you're doing if you auto-su everything).