From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:00:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > Yeah, but sudo *is* for running things as root! You think running them   
   > via sudo is any better than however else you were thinking of doing   
   > those things as root?   
      
   Sudo limits the damage.  Become root with 'sudo su -' and you'd better not   
   have lapses of attention. I think it was OpenSUSE where if you were root   
   the wallpaper turned bright red with round, black bombs with smoking   
   fuses.   
      
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