[ale] bash commands

[Mike Harrison]

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.