15 Dec
2014
15 Dec
'14
11:43 a.m.
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.
JD