[Sussex] Apt-Get

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Sat Jan 22 01:01:42 UTC 2005


Geoff

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:11:56PM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> Angelo Servini wrote:
> >why not just "su - "  ?
> 
> Because `su -` would ask you for a root password (which you won't have 
> on an Ubuntu system), but `sudo su -` would ask you for your user 
> accounts password (so long as your user is in the /etc/sudoers file).
> 
> You can actually configure sudo to not ask you for a password at all, 
> needless to say this is recommended.

Surely you mean *NOT* recommended.

Steve




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