On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Thomas Temp� (Johnix) wrote: > Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > ~$ sudo apt-get > > > What does sudo stand for? > > su is the command that lets you gain super-user rights. > sudo means "as super-user, do ..." but only applies to a restricted > set of commands. while sudo might mena this :) it's not intirely what it can do. If setup correctly you even can run stuff as other (regular) users. However, this is secondary to the primary run-as-root functionality.
Saye goes for the su-command which cna be used to become another user without having to login again. very handy together with the screen program which let's you run multiple pograms from oen login-shell (and even keep them running when logging out). > Have fun, > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
