On Mon, December 15, 2014 05:43, John Doe wrote: > From: Darr247 <darr247 at 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 at 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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3