[428] in athena10
Re: root logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Aug 13 17:00:36 2008
Message-Id: <200808132054.m7DKsadr013703@byte-me.mit.edu>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
cc: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>, "athena10@mit.edu" <athena10@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:51:23 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:54:36 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
That's a reason you want sudo, not a reason you don't want su. I'm
not suggesting tossing out the stuff Ubuntu people expect. I'm suggesting
not tossing out the stuff people from other distributions or prior Athena
expect. They work together just fine.
Mitch
> 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
> >
> >
