Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:18:10 -0500 (EST)
> From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> To: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
> Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:33:42 -0500 (EST)
> Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
>
> > Yes, I considered that. At my site, several developers will
> > have access to root so this wouldn't work in general.
> >
> Have you tried sudo? I'm not sure, but I think it knows who the user is
> even when it's giving root permission. (I could be all wet here, but it's
> worth a try)
It treats you just as special as root, but it still knows that you are
user 'joebloe'. I noticed this when I get mail. It pops up with a
messaage "You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/servo" when I was in a
sudo session. (I sudo to mc, and hit ctrl-o and get a # prompt, and have a
nice full shell environment. Better than su.)
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