On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:37:16 -0800
> "David M. Cook" <dave@davidcook.org> wrote:
>
> #
> # su
> # su postgres
> # createuser <username>
>
> You really should use (su -) also, instead of just (su)
I always never use the su command. This is so much more convenient a way
to root things:
summer@numbat summer]$ root magpie w
9:22am up 24 days, 3:04, 14 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root pts/0 numbat.computerd Wed10am 4days 0.25s 0.11s less
/usr/share/doc/
root pts/1 numbat.computerd Wed10am 4days 0.26s 0.26s -bash
root pts/2 numbat.computerd Wed10am 3days 0.12s 0.12s -bash
summer pts/3 numbat.computerd Wed10am 4days 0.16s 0.16s -bash
summer pts/4 numbat.computerd Fri11am 2days 1.36s 1.07s ssh -t
-l root gw
summer pts/5 numbat.computerd Wed10am 3days 0.12s 0.12s -bash
root pts/6 numbat.computerd Wed11am 4days 0.30s 0.30s -bash
summer pts/7 numbat.computerd Wed11am 4days 0.21s 0.03s man
tftpd
root pts/8 numbat.computerd Wed 1pm 4days 0.21s 0.21s -bash
summer pts/9 numbat.computerd Fri11am 2days 0.15s 0.15s -bash
root pts/10 numbat.computerd Fri11am 2days 1.56s 1.56s -bash
root pts/11 numbat.computerd Fri 2pm 2days 1.24s 1.09s ssh
wombat
root pts/12 gw.demo.room Fri 4pm 2days 0.14s 0.14s -bash
root pts/13 numbat.computerd 9:22am 1.00s 0.10s 0.10s w
Connection to magpie closed.
[summer@numbat summer]$ root
Last login: Sun Nov 17 14:26:26 2002 from numbat.computerdatasafe.com.au
[root@numbat root]# logout
Connection to numbat closed.
[summer@numbat summer]$ root gw
Last login: Mon Nov 18 03:58:07 2002 from gw.computerdatasafe.com.au
[root@gw root]# logout
Connection to gw closed.
[summer@numbat summer]$
Here's how it's done:
function root()
{
RH=$1
shift
[ -z "$RH" ] && RH=${HOSTNAME}
ssh -t -l root $RH $@
return $?
}
I have a newer way of doing the same thing on my RHL 8.0 box at home.
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