Fedora Live CD Spins - Are They Safe?

[jonc]

On 01/23/2013 10:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 06:50 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>>
>> Why does the method you linked to, recommend using the "su" method, that
>> is, "becoming root" with every single command?
>>
>
> Somebody wasn't thinking.  If I'd have written that, I'd have 
> specified using su first, followed by the rest of the commands. You 
> only need su -c if you only want to run one command as root, not a set 
> of them.
>
>> Do those commands not respond to "sudo"?
>
> Yes.  If you're going to use su at all, use it correctly; if not, you 
> might as well use sudo.
  It's a perfectly valid way to list commands that need to be run as 
root when you're writing a tutorial, without making any assumptions 
about the skill level of the user.