Sudo

[Steve Torrefranca]

summary  from the other thread: sudo -i or open a root terminal



Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:

>On Tuesday 28 of June 2005 14:30, Marek Pawinski wrote:
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>>What is this sudo business ? sudo this and sudo that.
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> Nothing. It's just far better than anythine else when it comes to doing root 
>stuff. That's why Ubutu uses it.
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>>I open a root terminal and for instance apt-get install whatever.
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> And?
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>>I mean how many times would one have to type a 16 character password
>>during the course of the day with sudo, freaks me out 
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> And how often do you need to perform root tasks? When you're running stable 
>version (Hoary) you don't even have to upgrade that often. Also, sudo gives 
>you ability to limit task/programms that can/can not be used by user/group. 
>It's very flexible.
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> This discussion leads to nowhere. Su/root account is far worse solution for 
>desktop computer than Sudo.
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