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> Terminals are run as root all the time Is it really common to run terminals as root? I can't remember the last time I did. Sure, I open a terminal as my user
by TheDong 5y ago
> Terminals are run as root all the time
Is it really common to run terminals as root? I can't remember the last time I did. Sure, I open a terminal as my user, and then run 'sudo bash' to get a shell as root, but the terminal is still running as my user. Were you meaning something else?
- shepherdjerred 5y agoI did a lot when I younger and didn't realize that it was a bad practice.
- arpa 5y agoI've been on Linux since 2000s and still maintain the view that real men log in as root on tty1. It's ironman mode, and pure joy of *nix as it was meant to be experienced. You filthy casual. /s
- dijit 5y agoUNIX was designed as a multi-user system. So the joy of UNIX is using many users on one machine. Which, incidentally, is the most pleasurable way of experiencing UNIX and UNIX-likes. (Shellboxen)
- pid-1 5y agoI've seem root terminals a lot in CI pipelines in the wild. Also one common way to install "DevOps" stuff piping scripts from curl (and them being asked for root)