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by jesprenj 1235 days ago
I ended up logging in as root mostly for the sake of convenience, as now I am no longer bothered with suid wrappers like sudo for mundane tasks, like editing system configuration files and udev rules for devices -- as the sole user of the computer I no longer face EPERM errors that force me into `sudo !!`.

I uninstalled sudo and started this habit on personal servers as well when the sudoedit vulnerability was announced, allowing anyone on a macine with sudo installed (regardless of sudoers config) to escalate to root.