Shit meme, I know.
sudo -i
Not a shit meme at all ! In fact, I want to convert that to ASCII art and have it as the MOTD when I
sudo -ior console in as root.“I am brute” takes over your linux
Why would you sudo su? That defeats the purpose of sudo.
If I ever need to switch to the root user, I usually type
su, but I saw someone usesudo su -in a video, which I thought was pretty strange but maybe the video creator knew something I didn’t, or it wasn’t possible to simplysua few years ago.You get tired of playing Simon Says when you’re doing a lot of admin stuff at once.
If you do multiple admin commands, sudo doesn’t prompt for your password. There’s some time limit before having to re input it.
Logging in as root is bad security hygiene. You’ll become complacent and leave it logged in at some point. That’s how you get pwnd.
I want to know more. Looking past running full desktop sessions as root and inputting stupid commands when sudo su, what’s the problem with having a terminal window open and escalated to root?
There’s some time limit before having to re input it.
Inputting a password multiple times into sudo has downsides too. Larger window for attackers to do something like: add a directory to your path, which has a fake sudo in it, and capture your password.
Depends how it’s configured
I don’t know if I’m the only one who ran into this but sometimes sudo just doesn’t work and you have too.
I’ve been using Debian for the better part of 20 years, and sudo has never not worked.
I tend to to be working in obscure micro distros inside of docker or servers that should have been retired around the time of the dinosaurs so I am probably alone in this, just saying it can happen.
