Martin Gregorie"  wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:06:01 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>
>> Dangerous, idiot!
>> you have no idea what dangerous is.
>>
> I'm with druck here. Doing more than you absolutely have to as root
> leaves the machine open to bigger and better attacks for no good reason.
>
> Routinely running Windows boxes as SystemAdmin or, worse, assigning that
> privilege to their usual login is what gets so many home systems infected
> by malware because it too gets access to everything.
>
> Similarly, reading mail or running a web browser while logged in as root
> gives any malware in mail or on infected websites unlimited access to
> your system by letting it also run as root, but those are only the most
> obvious dangers.
>
> That is why sensible people never run as root for any longer than
> absolutely necessary, don't configure servers to run as root and don't
> recommend running as root to newbies.

It is very tempting to solve all your problems by running as root or as
Windows administrator for everything.

But I resist the temptation and only use sudo when necessary - ie when a
command fails as "pi".

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