review on ian @ w98

[Cefiar]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 08:11, Steve Bibayoff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just passing on another review:
> http://www.w98.us/id/article.php/20060130135508178
>
> Interesting quote:
> "Except I couldn't "su" to root as the installation process had never
> prompted me to set one. Doh!" [...] "Thanks to google, and a search
> for "+ubuntu +"what's my root password" or something to that effect,
> and found that Ubuntu purposely hides that from users, and expects
> them to use 'sudo' for everything.
>
> In a nutshell, you effectively type the word 'sudo' before every
> command you'd otherwise run as root. What a hassle."

Just sent him an email through that thing's web interface, mentioning the 
command 'sudo -i'. Very similar to 'su -' (gives you an effective initial 
shell). The equivalent to 'su' by itself I think is 'sudo -s', but hey.. I 
just use 'sudo -i' now if I really do need a root-like shell, not that I do 
that very often.

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 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net