On Wednesday 16 January 2008 20:19, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > Someone more clever than I must surely have solved this. How can I > set through .bashrc or some other more secure way, the ability to > alias "su" with its password so I don't have to type my root password > every time I su. I have a very secure pw that is a bear to type 50 > times a day. > > ...
In addition to Jim C.'s suggestions, you can also start an interactive shell via su (or sudo) and then use the built-in "suspend" command to go back to the non-root shell from which it was invoked. Then you can re-enter it using the usual job-control commands. The shell will only honor a "suspend" command when it's not a login shell, so you don't have to worry about suspending a shell with no other shell "above" it to handle the suspended process state. Even better (this is what I do), open a separate tab (or two) in Konsole in which you run a root shell and leave it run permanently. You just switch to that tab and run commands that require root privileges. I use a different Konsole "scheme" (color pattern) to give me a visual cue about which kind of shell I'm interacting with. Konsole also shows a distinctive tab icon for root shells. > -- > David C. Rankin Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
