gksudo gnome-terminal

[jlochhead]

Hi everyone,

I recently discovered that you can enable a root terminal by making a shortcut for gksudo gnome-terminal.

I totally agree with Ubuntu's no su policy, but sometimes it gets tedious typing out sudo all the time if I am doing lots of sudo related operations in the CLI.

Does anyone know if there would be any security concerns related to me doing this?


Thanks

[cdenley]

Hi everyone,

I recently discovered that you can enable a root terminal by making a shortcut for gksudo gnome-terminal.

I totally agree with Ubuntu's no su policy, but sometimes it gets tedious typing out sudo all the time if I am doing lots of sudo related operations in the CLI.

Does anyone know if there would be any security concerns related to me doing this?


Thanks

Why not use "sudo -s" whenever you need a root shell? Whenever anything is running as root there is a security concern. The idea is to use the root account as little as possible.

[jlochhead]

Ok cheers, that is something else I didn't know.

[jerome1232]

or sudo -i
The only differences in sudo -s and sudo -i is this
sudo -s
echo $HOME
/home/jeremy
exit
sudo -i
echo $HOME
/root
Well i'm sure there are other environment variables that are different. I guess I like sudo -i because I don't want x program making files in my $HOME that are owned by root.