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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> A significant point is that many people here asking for help, or
> finding it when googling later, are not experienced admins. An
> experienced admin seeing instructions here which use sudo will know
> immediately the alternative techniques and is entirely free to use
> them if he/she sees fit.  For the less experienced users it is safer
> to use sudo.
>
> Colin
>
Good point, and I agree that advice that may reach normal users or newbie
admins should use sudo.

On the other hand, I spend most of my computer time in my home, sharing my
terminal with nobody (my dear wife stays away from my office.)  And I've
had UNIX, then Linux in my home since 1985.  I'm used to being root.
Moreover, I have nobody to show my logs to.  Most of those arguments don't
get much traction for my use case.  Accordingly, I have an alias "sume"
which is just "sudo -i".  I makes me feel better.  Think about it.

Some of my routine admin tasks are done under script(1) using aliases and
Bash functions I've crafted for the purpose.  Mostly so that if something
goes wrong, I have details I can put in a bug report.  When it matters I
want the results, not just the command.

For most, sudo is good.  For me it's tedious, and takes my mind off the
task at hand.  It's nice that there's more than one way to do things.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman
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