On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tyler J. Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like > > > with:- > > > > > > sudo -s > > > > Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use > > > > sudo -i > > > > so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment nor vice versa. > > And on machines with older sudo (I've got some older RHEL servers), I use: > > sudo su - > > <snip> For familiarities sake if you're used to working in environments which don't generally use sudo (Red Hat, Fedora, etc), then you can specify the root password and the su to it using $ sudo passwd root then, just su as on other distros.... probably not best practice, but convenient!
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