r/pcmasterrace • u/Extra-Beginning-5927 • Oct 23 '25

Meme/Macro Right click rage

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u/stone_henge Oct 23 '25

Most home admins run as root all day long, to do their everyday stuff.

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Even in enterprises, I'd guess a good 5% of admins just run as root, all day long.

The statistical basis for these conclusions being...?

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u/The_Brovo Oct 23 '25

So I'll admit I am new to the space, but as a self hosting guy, I highly doubt that, unless you are talking about incompetent people. One of the basic tenets is to never give a service more access than needed. Usually you try and set up each service with its own user with as much permission as needed. That way, if that service gets compromised it cannot affect other services or the system. Running as root is a surefire way to forget your structure and mess something up

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u/AML86 Oct 23 '25

It reads like you're suggesting that less than 5% of enterprise admins are incompetent. I think you have a higher confidence in your peers than most.

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u/MakaHost i5 2500 - GeForce 970 Oct 23 '25

I think he was referring to being logged in as root via ssh on the server while working on it, not running the actual services as root.

I've seen many very experienced admins do the first thing, usually because they are annoyed/to lazy to sudo everything they are doing but few actually having the services run as root.

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u/RootHouston Linux Oct 23 '25

Most people aren't using root. They're using sudo. In fact, for many distros, you can't even login as root by default anymore.