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Linux security will never stop feeling weird to me. Like when I try to do something that needs to be started with sudo, instead of warning me and just asking me
by causi 3y ago
Linux security will never stop feeling weird to me. Like when I try to do something that needs to be started with sudo, instead of warning me and just asking me if I want to run the command as root, I have to go back and input it again with sudo. Then some programs like VLC just straight-up refuse to run as root.
- dsr_ 3y agoThose are two great things for security that prevent you from: $ rm -rf * No permissions in this directory - want to try with sudo? (Y/n)
- ElectricalUnion 3y ago> Like when I try to do something that needs to be started with sudo, instead of warning me and just asking me if I want to run the command as root, I have to go back and input it again with sudo. This sounds like a misconfiguration or lack of support for policykit to me. > Then some programs like VLC just straight-up refuse to run as root. That IMHO should be the standard behaviour of most non-basic/GUI programs to me, running as root is overall a terrible idea.