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On Monday 15 December 2008 17:31, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:59:54PM -0000, Ray Smith wrote: > > You can also use sudo su which will then aske for you account password. > > Then any command you enter after that will be treated as a root command. > > Very bad if you forget you are operating as root. > > There's no sense in running 'sudo su' if you want a root shell. 'su' is > a program that prompts for a password and gives you a root shell, like > sudo, but it prompts every time. All 'sudo su' does is run su as root, > bypassing su's password prompt in favour of sudo's. > > sudo -s or sudo -i will give you a root shell (-i will simulate a login > as root, so you'll get root's bashrc etc. rather than your own, and > various environment variables will be set). This privilege is only given to the user you create at install by default. ie if you then use the usermanager to add accounts for the rest of the family then sudo (or running update manager/synaptic) will not work for them unless you give them the correct privilege! Tom te tom te tom > > -- > Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 > "For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not > rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared." -- St. Augustinus -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html