How to autologin as a superuser
THUFIR HAWAT
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 05:20:49 UTC 2005
On 7/11/05, Neil Dugan <fedora at butterflystitches.com.au> wrote:
..
> Another option is to setup 'sudo' command to allow a particular
> user to do everything. Then you can use 'sudo xxx' to run 'xxx'
> as the superuser. It is a bit more secure than, login as root.
..
I'm not clear on how sudo works. Rather than typing "su -" followed
by root's password, can I set it up so that I just type "sudo" and
then I *am* root until I exit? Or, must each and every command be of
the form "sudo foo"? I prefer the former, but is it insecure? Can I
have an icon in gnome to click to open the root terminal, perhaps open
nautilus as root?
Thanks,
Thufir
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