On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > John <psyche@computerdatasafe.com.au> wrote: > # I always never use the su command. This is so much more convenient a > # way to root things: > > *blink* it's more convenient to ssh to your own box as root than to > type: su - ? oooo tay.... For X forwarding a connection back, a 'sudo su -' does not carry the proper magic cookie back, particularly across varying configurations of several intermediate hosts. It is fragile enough that John's method of sticking with ssh forwarding turns out to work substantially better than the 'su -' approach. It should not matter, in theory, but there is that pesky distance between theory and practice. -- Russ Herrold -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
