I use 'sudo su -' which gets you the complete root experience. <br><br>-- Brian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Mike Harrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cluon@geeklabs.com" target="_blank">cluon@geeklabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sun, 20 May 2012, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> If that's current thinking, then it's changed. I've been administrating<br>
> Unix systems for about 25 years. Sudo didn't exist and you needed to su<br>
> in order to do admin tasks. It was accepted and expected. You couldn't<br>
> install SunOS, HPUX, UNICOS or Irix without it. I'm afraid this old dog<br>
> isn't learning new tricks, I use sudo -s or sudo -i on a regular basis<br>
> when I don't have su enabled.<br>
<br>
</div>I use sudo -s on my desktop when I need to do root things. Saves a lot of<br>
time and typing over "sudo foo" for every command. On a desktop, normal<br>
user system.. it seems to be the "right way". Be a user for user things,<br>
become almost root for doing admin stuff on my box.<br>
<br>
On a server.. there is only root for most sysadmin tasks. I've only been<br>
running Linux since 94.. but have also worked on DG Nova's, SCO unix,<br>
Slowlaris, etc.. but it seems to be the right way to admin a server.<br>
If you can't handle SSHing in/logging in as root.. you should not be.<br>
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