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Just a PSA
(lemmy.zip)
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Let me rephrase my question:
Why would I not want to open nano as root?
No offense, but that sounds like more OCD behavior. ๐ I don't need or want protection against myself, and I even loath the whole "that's not how you're supposed to do it"-mentality of linux (where when commands know very well what you want, instead of doing it, just tell you you forgot something). ๐
It's probably to protect against any potential security vulnerabilities in the text editor program itself, not to protect you from yourself.
You can say that just about anything.
sudo grub sudo boot sudo root=/dev/disk/linux sudo kernel-6.1.image sudo init sudo elogind sudo xterm sudo bash sudo nano
Again, like I replied to the other comment, most of the programs you need root for are designed with security in mind and are inherently more secure and have less vulnerabilities than a non security focused program (that is not to say that it is impossible for a security program to have vulnerabilities -it certainly occurred before and keeps occurring- they just have a lot fewer). But even if you need root permissions for a non security focused program, you still shouldn't let any program have it, the whole point is to minimize the surface of attack.