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On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 07:40:23PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On 30/09/06 12:23:38, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> >Thanks to you, Tony and the others who have replied. I am very
> >reassured. I have never used sudo myself since I, obviously, have
> >always known the root password.
>
> That just means you need to configure sudo properly.
>
> Once sudo is setup properly, there should be zero reasons to use 'su' -
> let alone login as root directly.
>
> sudo is FAR preferable to su because sudo only operates on that one
> command. It is quite likely that you will trash your entire system by
> 'forgetting' that you are still in an su shell. You can't do that with
> sudo.
Unless you do `sudo -s`. Or `sudo $SHELL`. This is much easier than
typing `sudo` before everything if you need to do a lot of work as root,
but carries the same risks as `su`.
bma
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