An advantage of sudo: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -c mcedit /etc/fstab su: user /etc/fstab does not exist [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -c "mcedit /etc/fstab" Password:
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo mcedit /etc/fstab [sudo] password for rocketmouse: If you work much with command line as user and you only need sometimes root privileges, then the quotation marks needed by su can become very annoying, as soon as there follows a little bit more than just /etc/fstab after the command. FWIW you can have su always asking for a password and at the same time gksu that will remember the password and also ask for the root password, but only one time, not when you use it again and again during a session. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1376514439.5135.15.camel@archlinux
