[426] in athena10
Re: root logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Aug 13 16:52:36 2008
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:51:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
cc: "athena10@mit.edu" <athena10@mit.edu>
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Oh, one thing I should mention -- you want sudo, not su, because there's
gksudo, the GNOME graphical version of sudo, which wraps all the standard
things like the tray updater app, System | Administration | anything,
Wireshark from the Applications menu, etc. GNOME on Ubuntu assumes sudo
fairly often. If we want clicking System | Administration | Synaptic
Package Manager to work without enabling root logins or jumping through
command-line hoops to get the xauth data, we want gksudo/sudo to work.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> sudo -i
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