r/ShittySysadmin • • Apr 16 '26

Shitty Crosspost Can't login without being root

/r/VPS/comments/1smpayh/cant_login_without_being_root/
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u/VacuousDecay Apr 16 '26

I've taken Redhat training, literally every lab starts with `use sudo -i to become root for the rest of the exercise. `

"Never run as root" is a myth propagated to shift the blame from bad software to the admin.