From: vallor@vallor.earth
At Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:59:25 -0500, c186282 wrote:
> On 1/20/26 20:40, vallor wrote:
> > At Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:47:14 -0500, c186282 wrote:
> >
> >> On 1/20/26 16:43, rbowman wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> 'sudo', as often implemented, is NOT safe. PI-os
> >> doesn't even ask for yer user PW.
> >>
> >> You CAN tweak sudoers ... tighten things up a bit,
> >> but that's more work and, if like me, you never
> >> use 'visudo', just 'nano', you'd better get the
> >> syntax right.
> >>
> >> The alt is to have NO 'sudo'. If you are concerned
> >> about security then this may be the best and easiest
> >> path. Open a terminal, 'su', then you need the ROOT
> >> password.
> >
> > I have a file in /etc/sudoers.d that includes this directive:
> >
> > Defaults targetpw
> >
> > So I need the root password to sudo to root.
>
>
> ROOT pass, or USER pass ???
ROOT pass (or whatever user you are sudoing to)
"targetpw" means you have to use the pw of the target
user.
>
> And is this "sudo su" or just "sudo" ?
anything with sudo, including sudo -i
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