Re: [ubuntu-uk] sudo

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like > > > with:- > > > > > > sudo -s > > > > Hmmm, when I do this I

[ubuntu-uk] sudo

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like > > with:- > > > > sudo -s > > Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use > > sudo -i > > so you don't litter your homedir with root'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sudo (was: Root password)

2006-08-11 Thread Paul Sladen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Matthew Saunders wrote: > On 11/08/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Topokin, Ubuntu, like other modern operating systems (such as Mac OSX), uses 'sudo' for performing privileged ("root") tasks, when required