SU & SUDO

[Raphaël Pinson]

On 10/6/06, Hawkwind <hawkwind at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/6/06, Dave <dsterken at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I would like to be able to disable the SUDO command and enable SU but I
> > can't find the conf files for it, would someone be so kind as to point me in
> > the right direction? Thanks in advance.
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> One quick way is to do:
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> sudo passwd or sudo su passwd
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> This should allow you to set a password, then you can use su - to log into
> root traditionally.
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It would also be a good idea to get to know sudo before doing this :)
It allows to do exactly the same things, and more, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu have
been heavily patched to use sudo in many commands.

Sudo is more and more used, because it allows a much better control on what
users can do.

See `man sudo_root` for more infos.


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