Cue to Su -

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:56:44 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:15:49AM -0500, David Curry wrote:
> > Thanks, Paul, for the cue on "su - " that you provided in response to
> > Duncan Lithgow's question re - Used swap 0MB.
> > On encountering the PATH problems in attempting to tweak several issues,
> > I have been logging off the system under my username and logging on as
> > root to deal with the matter(s).  Using su - is clearly much simpler.
> 
> Another option is to use sudo. Around here, we compile it using
> 
>   --with-secure-path=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> which is usually exactly the right thing with no surprises.
> 
> I suggested RH do this, but it was closed as notabug.
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=80215>
> 
> --
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>
 
Default setting for sudo is for only root to be enabled/empowered. All
other users/groups are disabled. Use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers and
configure for use.