Root login

[Tez]

Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 07:03, Raphaël Pinson wrote:
>   
>> On 12/7/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 07 December 2006 06:00, Tez wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm going to skip the whole "why you shouldn't log in as root" part, as
>>>> I assume you know all about that, and just tell you how to do it.
>>>>         
>>> Renaud wanted to log in for a backup.  Some backup software -- I use
>>> Mondo --
>>> doesn't work with sudo.
>>> --
>>>       
>> How do you mean it doesn't work with sudo?
>>
>> `sudo -i` and `sudo -s` provide you a root console that lets you use this
>> program just the same as if you were logged as user root.
>>     
> and this is better than using su ?....How?
>   
In that example it's the same as su.
But that's just one example of using sudo.

Tez