Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

Robert Parker rlp1938 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 15:32:46 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Pierre Frenkiel
<pierre.frenkiel at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:
>> You can 'sudo su -'
>
>   then, X11 doesn't work

That may well be for security reasons. The Ubuntu team probably have
forgotten more about security than we users will ever know.
I'll repeat that - they know what they are doing - we users don't.

Bob
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