Why do all the sudo? [was Re: Software updater no longer functional]

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:46:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>even
>
>  su
>  cd /path/
>  rm *
>
>would be more secure than the sudo approach.

I forgot to explain the reason for this.

Because you now have a separated history for root and the user, with
sudo for each command, you share one history for admin tasks and user
tasks.