About root or administrative account

[David B Teague]

Derek gave an interesting point of view, and NoOp give useful links.

Thanks to you also.

I'll need to read the articles NoOps links point at, and cogitate on 
that and Derek's remarks for a while.

Warm Regards
David Teague


NoOp wrote:
> On 03/23/2007 03:40 PM, David B Teague wrote:
>   
>> <SNIP>
> This might be of interest to you:
>
> http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/sudo.html
>  http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/history.html
>   http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/man/sudo.html
>
> http://man.linuxquestions.org/index.php?query=sudo&section=0&type=2
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
>
> Added note: some of the Mozilla developers reckon that sudo is "broken"
> and recommend su instead. I've no opinion either way, but when I do my
> installs for Mozilla projects (Seamonkey etc) I take their advise and
> use su rather than sudo; since then I've experience no installation
> problems.
>
>
>