Regardless, this question was already resolved. Or to have to append it to every single command manually. It is annoying to get blindsided by errors due to having forgotten to include it in a line. sudo -s -H You can find a lot more details in sudos man-page. I can go weeks or months between sudo sessions.īut when I start working on something that does require sudo, it will require many sudo commands in a row instead of just 1 single instance. sudo -s IF I really have to run a root shell (in most cases I dont), then I find it very helpful to have the HOME environment variable of the shell set accordingly (to reflect running as 'root'), this can be done using the '-H' flag. This is not something I do on a daily basis. So in this case you are running su using sudo and you don't have to know root's actual password. sudo su - Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su - as root. I had to uninstall it and then reinstall via sudo. sudo su Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su as root.
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I looked for how to specify an alternate user data directory with the -user-data-dir argument but I didnt find much. To run as root, you must specify an alternate user data directory with the -user-data-dir argument. it installed, but it was a broken install. It is recommended to start vscode as a normal user. I had a case not too long ago where I installed something without sudo. And I bet it will require a dozen sudos when I do. Turns out I needed wsdd, but most of the info I found online was wrong and outdated and had me trying a bunch of incorrect fixes that did not work. I spent several hours not too long resolving the issue of my server not showing up on windows machines. For example I recently migrated from plex to jellyfin. Much less more complicated operations.ĭeploying new software requires many sudo commands in a row. You cannot even perform a mere scrub without sudo. The only thing I found you could do without sudo is a list.
I wonder, how often and why you need to use sudo.
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