Root! Root! Root!

[russell cook]

I dragged that icon to the panel bar so it's now only one click :-)

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 00:31 +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote:

> I do:
> Applications -> System Tools -> Root Terminal
> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> >> I prefer a working root account for when I run multiple commands or am
> >>debugging problems, but am happy with sudo for scripts and single commands.
> >>I agree tab completion is great. When I remember (not always), I type the
> >>command and command line first (so I can use some of bash's features) then
> >>hit the home key to go to the start of the line and type in sudo. Not an
> >>elegant solution but a workaround.
> > 
> > 
> > sudo -s -H
> > 
> > You then get a full root prompt from "within" sudo (without the need
> > to activate the root account), and tab completion seems to work
> > properly.
> > 
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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