Steve Lamb wrote:
Angelo Bertolli wrote:Well I like the benefit of typing one line. In debian, being in the group sudo allows you to skip using a password. So to me there's a benefit over: typing su, typing root's password, typing my command, exiting.I like the benefit of not having to worry about permissions on certain directories getting in my way when I am looking for information. For example..
Yep, and in those cases I use su ;) Also in cases when I have to redirect output as root. But for quickies, I like sudo. Angelo