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  • Geodad@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldsudo su -
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    14 hours ago

    I figured out that it just drops you into a root shell, which is a bad thing.

    You should try to never login as root. It’s just bad security hygiene.

    I run sudo apt update, put in my password, thenonce my repos are updated, I run sudo apt upgrade. Password only has to be input once, unless I get busy and forget to do the upgrade command, in which case I haven’t left a root shell unattended for however long it took me to realize that I left the shell open.

    That way if someone else comes along and tries to do stuff, they only have the limited privilege level that my user does.