I figured out that it just drops you into a root ahell, 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.
I figured out that it just drops you into a root ahell, 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.
It even gets worse - I keep screen sessions open with one screen running root
Security and convenience balance, and if something has compromised my sudoer account they have root anyway