On Thu 10 Feb 2022 at 20:26:57 (+0000), Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:11:01 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 09, 2022 06:08:16 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > I've switched to using sudo because it encourages me to use root
> > > only when strictly required.
> >
> > That's a good idea, but I'll mention what I do -- I may have started
> > before sudo existed (or, at least, before I knew about it).
> >
> > I use kde and keep several konsole (terminals) open, at on one, I
> > open it as root and set the background to be a different color than
> > the non-root konsole (a shade of yello).
> >
> > (Once you pick a color for the background (or any of variety of other
> > user preferences), you can save those so, for example, every time I
> > open a konsole as root, it gets those preferences.
> >
>
> Just an additional note if you use mc: you can change the colours of the
> mc window and save the changes, but when you close mc the previous
> config file will overwrite the new one. What you have to do is to save
> the config, then rename it from outside mc with mc still running. Close
> mc, rename the new config file back to the original name, then it will
> be used next time you start mc.
>
> A bit of a faff, which is why I don't change things often. But my
> server is console-only, and I found mc to be an excellent file manager
> and simple text editor for it. I also have different background colours
> depending on whether it is opened with sudo or not.
Why not just set these five file permissions to readonly?
.config/mc/{ini,panels.ini} .cache/mc/Tree{,.tmp} .local/share/mc/history
The last might need to be owned by root (for normal users), or
chattr +i if you run mc as root. (I don't.)
> Yes, it's a dangerous beast as root, but what are you doing on a server
> if not admin work (carefully)?
Cheers,
David.
