I am proceeding on the principle that sudo is in place for a security reason. If I am doing an end run around all this sudoing then I'm doing an end run around security. Sure, sometimes there's a reason to do that, but I'm not that good yet. Thanks for the tip for when I am that good. For now I want to develop good habits.
I am quite comfortable with using a system which incessantly and unerringly reminds me every #*$%ing time I need to use superuser privileges that I'm wielding terrible power. I'm a bit of a space cadet and as you say: "... one little slip ...". Clyde Forrester Alan Lord wrote: > Clyde Forrester wrote: > <snip /> > >> Now the pickiness. In part 2.3 I'm guessing I should be root when making >> partitions. Maybe I missed it. It doesn't seem to say. Of course I can >> never really be root. I have to sudo wherever it is appropriate. >> > > That's not actually true... > > Open a terminal and type: > > sudo passwd root > > You will then need to enter your password first, then you will be > prompted to enter a password (for root) twice. > > Once that is done, you can just type "su" and you will become "root". > > If you are not entirely sure what your are doing, I probably wouldn't > recommend this though, as one little slip, e.g. rm -r / could cause > disaster!!!!! > > <snip /> > >> Clyde Forrester >> > > HTH > > Alan > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
