On Mon, December 15, 2014 05:43, John Doe wrote:
From: Darr247 darr247@gmail.com
And logging in as root for everyday tasks is generally discouraged, as well. Most admins will edit their /etc/sudoers file to give themselves sudo access, so they could run [username@machinename ~]$ sudo yum install man-1.6f* man-pages-3.22-* (which will then prompt for the user's password, not the root password) instead of logging in as root.
I must be a bad admin because I rarely use sudo (only to limit some access to some commands to some users).
That would make me prepand 99% of my daily commands with sudo. After a while, that gets annoying... IMHO, this rule is good for users/workstations, not admins/servers.
And even on my workstation I have a dedicated root window where I do root stuff.
+1 from another 'bad-admin'
I log on at the console with a non-privileged account. But then I immediately go into the X-Windows desktop and open a logon terminal session. There I su -l to root and leave it open; tmux'ing over ssh from there to all the other hosts as required.
I do have that 'root' terminal session profiled with a red background. Just to remind me of where I am.