On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Steve Holmes wrote: > The other thing here, why not do a 'su -' instead? this will put you > into a pure shell as root. It would seem to me that sudo is more for > single shot commands. I don't know further since I do Slackware but I "su -" will only work like that, if you have a root password. Some Ubuntu installations, for example, don't bother setting a root password (they disable root logins, to be exact), and expect you to use "sudo" for everything root. It forces you to think like a regular user who some times has to do things as root, at least I think that's the reasoning. Of course, "sudo bash" does just as well as "su -", with the advantage of not having to have a root password (you use your own password); or--as I do on segregated systems with some times flaky speech such as my laptop--not having to have any password if you configure sudo not to require it for your username or group. Regards, Luke
