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    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org -1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Um... shouldn't it be:

    sudo su;
apt-get update;
flatpak update;

    Or am I missing something?

    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    You should never use "sudo su". That's a big security no-no.

    ~$ sudo apt update

    [sudo] password for {your user name}:

    -command executes-

    ~$

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Does that1 security no-no matter on a single-user system which (almost) never leaves the sight of said user? Or is that just a matter of 'don't do this on a server'?

    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

    It's not a good habit to get into. Even if you don't have anyone at homebto mess with your system, these kinds of habits tend to follow people around. You'll get comfortable at work and run something as root, but forget to deescalate permissions.

    Just using sudo as your user runs only that command or script as root, then drops back to your limited user account.

    Say you got busy or distracted and walked away, anyone who was able to access your system between the end of the command and the time your system auto locked would only have the access level of your user.

    [–] dunz@feddit.nu 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Use sudo -i instead, gives you an interactive shell without running the su binary with sudo, which is unnecessary

    Edit: it's i not I

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Thank you, that's a switch I hadn't looked at. I'll admit though, I'm on Mint, I have a nice built-in GUI that works nicely.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    It's a really important switch for doing things like setting up wireguard, which has protected directories, you can't actually enter the directory for wireguard setup without sudo -i

    (I mean technically you probably can with sudo su, too, but this is more elegant and less redundant)

    [–] dunz@feddit.nu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    My phones keyboard decided to capitalize, it's -i

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

    Thanks, we suffered the same fate.

    [–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

    Sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get (-y if you want it to do it automatically) upgrade

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

    There's also

    sudo apt update

    if you only want to apply the superuser permission one specific command instead of a lot of commands

    [–] aleq@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    What's the problem exactly? There are many ways to do it, and I think saying you run apt-get update is quite fine even if you're not explicitly saying that you run it as root. And he may not have flatpaks.