• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    Shut the front door!


    In a lot of situations it’s actually bad to use sudo because it can impact settings that make programs or file ownership go to root instead of the user.

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      You’ve got to be a damn idiot jumping over his own shadow to get that done. How would you even do that? Running

      chown -R root.root
      

      over directories or mount points? Deleting files in /dev or /run and recreating them using “touch” without looking up ownerships before? I wrote “touch” because anyone proceeding to “mknod” would at least have read some man pages. BTW, you’d need su for that rather than sudo.