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Old 18th July 2011
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I use su and/or a root shell. This combination was not in the poll so I didn't cast a vote so as not to pollute the statistics. The times I've looked at sudo, I found it totally opaque and decided not to use something I didn't understand. When I do admin tasks there's usually lots to do, so a root shell is very convenient. I know this is not considered good practice and I'm not recommending it to anyone. It has worked for me on home systems that are not regularly connected to the 'net. (Having written this, it seems likely I'll now go and delete the root filesystem by accident. )
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