Re: commands as super-user

[Karl Larsen]

Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>  On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:02 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
>    
> > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:10 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >     
> >> ...that we should probably condense the sudo tutorial and include it in
> >> the Administrator Guide, referring to it there in documentation that
> >> needs it.  Just an idea.
> >>       
> > +1
> >
> > Here it is if anyone has time to bring the content over to the
> > Administration Guide:
> >
> > http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/sudo-tutorial/
> >
> > XML source is in CVS:
> >
> > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/sudo-tutorial/?root=docs
> >
> > or you can check it out anonymously[1]:
> >
> > export CVS_RSH=ssh 
> > export CVSROOT=:pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs/docs
> > cvs -z3 login
> > cvs -z3 co sudo-tutorial docs-common
> >
> > The `docs-common` module is only needed if you plan on building to HTML
> > from the XML, which I already did above.
> >
> > - Karsten
> >
> > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/CvsUsage#Anonymous_CVS
> >     
>
>  I would actually prefer Sudo since you can run multiple commands without
>  using su -c so for me it would be significantly better for the user.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Marc
>
>     
    There is little lost if you say up front, a root Terminal is one 
where you type su - and it asks for your root password. In my way of 
doing things I have a root terminal above a non-root terminal. They both 
fit well and you can use the one needed.

Karl


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