New to Qubes OS but what's with sudo -i?

parulin · December 12, 2025, 7:30am

This has already been discussed on the forum…

But the most interesting discussion might be this one:

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

Qubes vm-sudo documentation write-up against sudo passwords inside App Qubes outdated

opened 02:17PM - 03 Jan 24 UTC

adrelanos

C: doc P: default needs diagnosis

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vm-sudo/ is outdated. The comment ``` # WTF?…! Have you lost your mind?! # # In Qubes VMs there is no point in isolating the root account from # the user account. ``` This is evidenced by file `/etc/sudoers.d/qubes` which previously had this comment, having nowadays this comment removed. That write-up was just a copy of `/etc/sudoers.d/qubes`. Already in 2017, Joanna upgraded her viewpoint, see: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2695#issuecomment-301316132 This ticket is still open, which means Qubes would be open if the community would implement this.