From: vallor@vallor.earth

At Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:47:14 -0500, c186282  wrote:

> On 1/20/26 16:43, rbowman wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:00:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, but sudo *is* for running things as root! You think running them
> >> via sudo is any better than however else you were thinking of doing
> >> those things as root?
> >
> > Sudo limits the damage.  Become root with 'sudo su -' and you'd better not
> > have lapses of attention. I think it was OpenSUSE where if you were root
> > the wallpaper turned bright red with round, black bombs with smoking
> > fuses.
>
>    'sudo', as often implemented, is NOT safe. PI-os
>    doesn't even ask for yer user PW.
>
>    You CAN tweak sudoers ... tighten things up a bit,
>    but that's more work and, if like me, you never
>    use 'visudo', just 'nano', you'd better get the
>    syntax right.
>
>    The alt is to have NO 'sudo'. If you are concerned
>    about security then this may be the best and easiest
>    path. Open a terminal, 'su', then you need the ROOT
>    password.

I have a file in /etc/sudoers.d that includes this directive:

Defaults	targetpw

So I need the root password to sudo to root.

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