On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote:
The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and
servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as
required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an interactive
root shell and avoid prepending every command with "sudo."
As a matter of practicality, Large Language Models like chapgpt and
claude almost always give commands for you to enter to enter prefixed by
sudo.
It doesn't matter where you are root or not. for root sudo is
(probably?) ignored.
Personally, I often su - to root but also use sudo (after setting the
nopassword option in sudoers )
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
For those of us who don't live and breathe bash, the LLMs are very
useful. Not having to ever enter a sudo password is also very useful.
