#linux #security
Using an unprivileged user and `su`/unrestricted (not limited to a closed set of trustworthy executables by sudoers) `sudo` to obtain root perms on a typical GNU/Linux system without restrictive MAC polices doesn't offer any considerable security improvement over using root directly for all activities the unprivileged user is used for. It does, though, provide plenty of feel-good inconvenience (typing all these `su`s when needed), even reinforced by some application developers, whose software refuses to run as root. Prove me wrong.