On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
> > > the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time I log in and
> > > everything I do on the box is done as root, and only I do it. I ssh
> > > into my own account, then su -
> >
> > "sudo -H -s" == "Start a root shell and set the $HOME env to /root"
>
> There's also sudo -i for much the same purpose.

Yeh, I've had mixed success with that switch.  Seems every sudo I use supports 
"-H -s" but only the Linux variants support "-i"...which sux when you divide 
your time between Solaris, the BSD's and Linux, then rsync the same .bashrc 
between all of them :P

Cheers,

James
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