[ale] bash commands

[matt]

sudo -i is definitely bad practice, it completely negates the purpose of
using sudo in the first place.

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>wrote:

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