[ale] bash commands

[matt]

Why not just log in as root and stomp around if you're going to use sudo -i?

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:27 PM, matt <ur.matt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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