F19 AMI Cloud Images - how to su? (sudo works)

[Philip Rhoades]

Matthew,


On 2013-10-23 08:33, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:46:50AM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> Am I forced to use sudo all the time?  Is it possible to "su -" 
>> somehow?
> 
> You can 'sudo su -', if you like.
> 
> Or, you can use cloud-init to disable the creation of the fedora 
> account and
> leave the root account active. Here's a previous message on this topic, 
> with
> instructions:
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2013-June/002505.html


I found that stuff confusing - cloud-init (it seems to be an Ubuntu 
thing? is it used from the AWS console somehow?) seems to only be useful 
when creating the instance?  Can something be done for an existing 
instance?

Thanks,

Phil.
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