On 2022-02-11 19:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 11:11:01, 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.
I did use to have a root window constantly open and "Ctrl-a r" is still
opening a 'sudo -i' window in tmux.
The trouble with that is that I would tend to use the root console for
non-root things. Besides, it's annoying to 'cd' in the non-root
terminal
in some deep directory structure only to find out you need root
permissions to do what you actually needed to do when you got there.
I've su'ed first before diving into the file system if I thought I was
going to edit something as root but now I think should
"echo $PWD" when there.
copy that, "su -" and "cd paste".
mick
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