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El dom, 16-05-2010 a las 15:52 +0100, John Williams escribiÃ: > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 03:32 -0700, Rhia Knowles wrote: > > > I also liked that it used a root account for permissions instead of sudo. > > sudo -i > > Will give you your root terminal, no need to keep prefixing sudo ;) > > Or just add a passwd back to the root account with > > sudo passwd -u root > > Should also work as well, I'd just use the first suggestion though, its > even the same number of chars as "su root" which you would use to change > user ofc. I would add that "sudo -i" provides a login shell, that it's the same than "su -". The difference is mainly in the environment variables used with you run "su -" for a login shell and "su root" to just become root preserving part of the actual environment. I'm a sudo fan, mainly because it caches the password for some time (using "su -c command" needs you to enter the password every time), AND you don't have to run a root login shell. Cheers, Juanjo -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ ramble on: http://rambleon.usebox.net/ -- 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