Re: help

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:04:58PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > If the reply comes back with "su doesn't work" or "sudo doesn't
> > work", you can see they missed the point entirely and educate them
> > about what is "being root", the dangers of "being root", and how to
> > do it on various Debian-alike systems.
> 
> Full agreement!  These excellently presented reasons are why I use
> 'sudo' in my explanations and will continue to do so.

It would be interesting to know how many Ubuntu users ask advice on this
list. AFAIR, there have been a couple of posts from Ubuntu users because
they felt that they weren't getting much help from the Ubuntu
forums/lists.


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