[ale] bash commands

[Brian Stanaland]

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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