On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Use su to write configuration files and sudo to run
> programs, unless someone else on this forum has a better idea.
> See the "man" pages for "su" and "sudo" documentation.
Don't use su unless it's absolutely necessary. sudo can be used to write
conffiles with a command line like this:
sudo ae /etc/fstab
substitute "emacs -nw", "pine" or whatever editor you like for "ae",
and the name of the file for "/etc/fstab". You will, of course, need to
use su to edit the sudo configuration files the first time, but after
that you can sudo.
Will
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