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Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

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217 points tanelpoder | 1 comments | 17 Mar 21 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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theamk ◴[17 Mar 21 14:57 UTC] No.26492113[source]▶
Agree with the author, "do not run as root" is a great point. Prefix the required commands with sudo instead!

And even with "sudo", limit the exposure -- sometimes you can sudo to specific user/group instead of more general root.

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jimmaswell ◴[17 Mar 21 16:01 UTC] No.26493004[source]▶
I've run as root whenever possible for over a decade with 0 problems. I'm not going to relegate myself to constantly asking my own computer for permission to do anything. Same for UAC turned off in Windows, just don't run viruses.
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aidenn0 ◴[17 Mar 21 17:10 UTC] No.26494029[source]▶
Have you never accidentally bumped the middle mouse button while your mouse cursor was over a terminal?
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1. jimmaswell ◴[17 Mar 21 21:03 UTC] No.26496748[source]▶
Most commands I'd run would need sudo anyway so a mis-paste would probably run with sudo if I used it. Never had a mishap from a mispaste like that though, no.