Sudo vs. root

[John DeCarlo]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> He insists that he has tried to start the server with sudo from a
> regular user account, but that it "doesn't work": it starts but does
> not serve. I will go over there on Sunday to take a look at the
> machine, but before I go I'd like to know if there is any real
> difference between running an application as root vs. running with
> sudo.
>

There is absolutely a difference.  If I were smarter, I would give you a URL
that explains all the technical details.

Have him log on as a regular user, go to the command line, type "sudo -i"
then try the app.  It should work.

"sudo -i" makes you root, gives you $HOME of /root, loads the /root/.profile
and whatever.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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