From the article: > Since it was installed in your home directory - no need to change any permissions. No sudo required. Although I'd argue sudo vs no-sudo-bu

From the article: > Since it was installed in your home directory - no need to change any permissions. No sudo required. Although I'd argue sudo vs no-sudo-but-in-your-home-directory is the same difference. Local exploits are trivial to find, plentiful and still not even necessary: 99% of the time some sloppy local configuration can be exploited to gain root access. I've switched to "let's try a few minutes on our own before asking the admin" a long time ago - and haven't required an admin's help ever since..