On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:03:23AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned: > > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an > > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion > > is better than forgetting you're root and doing something you don't > > want to do. > > > > apt-get install sudo visudo, add yourself a line similar to what's > > already there sudo command_to_be_run_as_root > > > > People keep talking about sudo like it's the cat's meow, and maybe for a > single-user system it is. But sudo documentation very explicitly warns > that, if you're not careful about what you allow, you could accidentally > allow access to far more than you expected. ...it seems like a good idea on a single-user machine to allow sudo dpkg -i... sudo dpkg -i make_bash_setuid_root.deb -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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