At 12:14 AM 12/21/98 -0600, Edward Welbon wrote:
>Rather than su - root, you are safer to use sudo which allows you to
>execute a command as root. The problem with su is that it lets you leave
>a session open as root whereas sudo can be setup to require a password on
>each command invocation (you can also do other things such as restrict the
>programs that can be run). It is all a matter of how paranoid you are.
I use sudo a lot, and generally do use it like su to start a root session,
although it's also handy for running individual commands. One problem with
using it for individual commands is the difficulty of properly handling
complex command lines involving redirection which involve several commands
all of which need to be run as root.
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