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Juan J. MartÃnez wrote: > 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 > I don't need to be root (via sudo) very often, so it is not a chore. Neil -- 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