dapper sudo

[Nikhil Fernandes]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 10:35 -0400, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > boricua wrote:
> >> how come dapper does not allow me to do this
> >>
> >>  sudo cat /dev/null >  /var/log/apache2/error.log
> > 
> > This doesn't have anything to do with dapper. What makes
> > you think so? Does the above work at a different distribution?
> > 
> 
> Because Ubuntu insists on "use sudo for everything", "never log in as
> root", "root doesn't even have a password to let you log in as root".
> Most other distro's don't have this policy.  Someone coming from another
> distro or another flavor of Unix is used to using the standard su.
> After becoming root, the above command would work, minus the superfluous
> sudo.
> 
> 
or you could do:

sudo -i
cat /dev/null >  /var/log/apache2/error.log
exit

The extra security of sudo makes the extra steps worth it to me (I used
to be an FC5 user).

Nikhil