On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:57:47 +0200, A. Dumas wrote:

> On 04/08/2017 03:35, Rob Morley wrote:
>> Getting into the habit of sudoing anything that /might/ need it erodes
>> some of the protection that you get from running as a user with lower
>> privileges.
>
> Well, with it not needing a password on standard Raspbian, I didn't
> think it could be eroded any further.

At least you have to specifically request root as an indication that you
know what you are doing, rather than running as root so there is some
protection.

of course if the user blindly prefixes everything with sudo regardless
then the above is moot

Much better to get a full understanding of the Linux security model





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