On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, George
<nutndun@comcast.net> wrote:
I was a little disappointed being called out on my suggestions in my
original post. Obviously the person isn’t a sys admin and from my
understanding the whole purpose of sudo is so the user only has root
privileges for that given command instead of during the entire terminal
session. I personally see nothing wrong with what I suggested other then
using visudo to edit the sudoers file instead of vim.
i too was disappointed. i tried su and authentication failed. how do i update my system without being able to log in as root?
now i don't mind a spirited discussion on the pros and cons of sudo vs. su, but my original question still has not been answered; and with this new development i am really at a loss.
you are saying that sudo and su are not available from a user console, then how do i fix this so i can become root when i need to?
cheers, dwain