Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Feb 2 17:26:34 UTC 2009
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:
>> You can 'sudo su -'
>
> then, X11 doesn't work
>
sudo -s should be used instead of 'sudo su -'. None of which has
anything to do with the original message of this thread.
(Or, should I say, sudo -s should *not* be used, by those who advocate
sudo a security measure because of it's logging facility... on a
presumably single privileged user system... )
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