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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.