Forward: sudo

[federico silva]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 04:01, Bryan wrote: 
Bryan escribió:
> what is the difference between using 'su' and using 'sudo -i'?  isn't the
> end result the same and you can do your admin stuff?  i use sudo for
> one-off admin stuff and sudo -i for when i know i'm going to do a lot of
> admin stuff one after another, then i ctrl-d out of the root shell when i'm
> done.   it's so easy and so convenient.

Some programs need the root account. CUPS web interface is one. 
KDE or GNOME cups interfaces are useless in headless machines.

And when fiddling with name resolution, sudo, if unable to
resolve the hostname, refuses to run and barks getHostByName()
cannot resolve dadadah ( or something similar, cant remember ).

Also some people just like it. Why not just let them? Freedom of
choice? ;-)

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