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:anonymous at cvs.fedoraproject.org:/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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