Diana Artemis wrote: > Robin Bowes wrote: > > This is veering wildly off-topic, but what's wrong with sudo? Works >> perfectly well for me, and I don't even use Ubuntu! > > > Isn't one of the advantages of sudo that it is temporary - it logs you > back out of root privileges automatically after a period of inactivity > (after 15 minutes by default in Debian; after 5 minutes in Ubuntu)? > Some see this as a useful fail-safe. (And you can change the default > timeouts if you wish).
Depends how you use it. I personally use it without a password to allow elevated privileges to certain commands for specific users. R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
