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 for items owned by root, which should give you pause if you’re supposed to be deleting items in your home folder.