Fedora Live CD Spins - Are They Safe?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Jan 24 09:32:43 UTC 2013



Am 24.01.2013 04:12, schrieb 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

and which one would you not run as root in context of a dist-upgrade?


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