Hi. New to Qubes OS here.
I’m still learning and to be honest have a hard time setting up Whonix.
But first command I typed after logging in with a non-privileged user was “sudo -i”
Didn’t need to enter a password to become root.
Why bother making a non-root account then?
WTF?! Have you lost your mind?!...
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This has already been discussed on the forum…
But the most interesting discussion might be this one:
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Didn’t whonix 18 dropped sudo by default? sysmaint - System Maintenance User
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Some distributions do this - like Ubuntu. The point is that when you are
working as a regular user you reduce the risk of borking your system,
but you can still easily perform admin tasks.
I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.
Perhaps related
Does anyone else have whonix ws 18 DVM refusing to open the download folder by clicking on the folder icon in Tor browser (once the download completes) ?
It used to open the file where the download is, now nothing happens
Yes. I haven’t bothered to figure out the problem though.
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Didn’t whonix 18 dropped sudo by default?
It indeed did. Now you cannot run sudo as the normal user. You
either reboot into sysmaint user, OR, my preferred method, open a root
shell from dom0:
qvm-run --user root <TARGET-QUBE-NAME-HERE> alacritty
Feel free to insert your favorite terminal program in-place of
alacritty.
Tbh, at first I was annoyed by the user-sysmaint-split in whonix18. But
I am warming up to it. I feel much more in control about what program
gets to use elevated privileges (ie, “sudo”) and when.
I might even start to use Kicksecure templates instead of Debian-13.