On Jo, 10 feb 22, 11:11:01, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, February 09, 2022 06:08:16 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> I've switched to using sudo because it encourages me to use root only
> when strictly required.
That's a good idea, but I'll mention what I do -- I may have started
before
sudo existed (or, at least, before I knew about it).
I use kde and keep several konsole (terminals) open, at on one, I open
it as
root and set the background to be a different color than the non-root
konsole
(a shade of yello).
(Once you pick a color for the background (or any of variety of other
user
preferences), you can save those so, for example, every time I open a
konsole
as root, it gets those preferences.
I did use to have a root window constantly open and "Ctrl-a r" is still
opening a 'sudo -i' window in tmux.
The trouble with that is that I would tend to use the root console for
non-root things. Besides, it's annoying to 'cd' in the non-root
terminal
in some deep directory structure only to find out you need root
permissions to do what you actually needed to do when you got there.