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These guys are selling FreeBSD consultancy, so I don't know how this article can be unbiased. > On Linux systems, it is very common to use sudo for operations
by dig1 4y ago
These guys are selling FreeBSD consultancy, so I don't know how this article can be unbiased.
> On Linux systems, it is very common to use sudo for operations that require root permissions
Not common unless authors used Ubuntu desktop, which pushed sudo usage to the extremes. I don't even have it installed. However, frequent sudo usage usually indicates something is wrong with how you use the system, maybe account permissions or lack of knowledge of how to use it properly.
- hansel_der 4y agoidk openbsd has 'doas', windows has 'runas', 'su' is also very popular. whats wrong with it in your opinion?
- dig1 4y agoHonestly, I don't have any issues with "sudo" it is an excellent tool for the job - it temporarily executes a command as a different user. But Ubuntu moved that to the next level, and in documentation, you'd frequently find shell samples with multiple successive sudo calls, executed as a root user. That should be replaced with a single "su". On the other hand, I have seen excessive sudo usage only in Ubuntu and some Debian/Arch docs. Maybe, this is the reasoning behind their comment that sudo is frequently used. <joke> Also, you can easily spot Ubuntu users: they'll type almost any command with sudo :D </joke>
- hansel_der 4y agosu asks for the root pw thou, which most ubuntu users don't know.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> Not common unless authors used Ubuntu desktop, which pushed sudo usage to the extremes. Ubuntu, and Fedora and RHEL et al., and SUSE. Most of the big players prefer sudo.