The Magic Key

The Magic Key
sudo-memes, linux-memes, unix-memes, permissions-memes, root-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

The Linux sysadmin's equivalent of "abracadabra" - just prefix any command with sudo and watch your permissions problems vanish into thin air. Can't install that package? Sudo. File won't delete? Sudo. Server on fire? Probably sudo.

It's the universal skeleton key that grants you god-mode privileges on Unix systems. Sure, you could carefully consider whether you actually need root access for each operation, or you could just slap sudo on everything and live dangerously. Most of us choose the latter because reading permission errors is for people with time on their hands.

Fun fact: sudo stands for "superuser do" but in practice it means "I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm doing it with admin privileges."

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