I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.
Is there any reason to use a root account? If you had used sudo for each privilege needing command in stead it would have stopped you.
if you just borked your /etc and need to rebuild because you don’t have sudo anymore
I hand-edited sudoers.conf day one on the job without using visudo
So in one day, I learnd both how to move a volume from one AWS VM and that there’s no good reason not to use visudo.
Would it? I think it would have just let you do it.
I think they just mean you’d be prompted for a password, which should give you pause if you’re supposed to be deleting items in your home folder.
If you use sudo for each privileged command you wouldn’t typically use sudo to remove something in your home directory, so the command would fail. At which point you’d check why the command failed.