Do you have a separate admin account, or let your “main” account have admin rights? Do you require entering a password/PIN to install software? Just curious about where people fall on the security-convenience spectrum.
Do you have a separate admin account, or let your “main” account have admin rights? Do you require entering a password/PIN to install software? Just curious about where people fall on the security-convenience spectrum.
I like to actually log in as root on a terminal to do admin stuff, never got into sudo really. Old habits, you know.
I’ll do that on my Linux machine if I have to do a lot of admin stuff. Otherwise I just stick to sudo.
The only reason to actually sudo su is when you have to redirect to a file, as root, and tee is not an option for some reason.
Why not sudo -s?
No particular reason but for that sort of thing I just do
su -What