On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:37:41 (-0000), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> wrote: > > > > I assumed it was effectively the same as power down and then logging in > > as root on power-up. > > It is. But it's unnecessary and dangerous to run your entire DE as root. > Or maybe you log in to the console and use startx to run Mate?
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/03/msg00301.html might answer that. > At any rate, I do follow the rule of those in the know here and su to > root in an xterm when I require root privileges for a task. I've never > found or understood the need to proceed otherwise. As posted earlier today, a file in sudoers.d/ makes trivial admin tasks like monitoring and logging easier, particularly where the programs concerned can cause damage if the wrong options are used. Eg, [fg]disk -l for logging disks, sticks and cards, udevadm control -R for reloading the udev rules, systemctl restart minidlna.service after adding/removing files, and not forgetting the introspective cat /etc/sudoers and cat /etc/sudoers.d/my-own-drop-in. (Obviously I don't make myself a member of the sudo group.) Cheers, David.
