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Re: root logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed Aug 13 17:02:27 2008
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>,
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, "athena10@mit.edu" <athena10@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Mitchell E Berger wrote:
> People who are used to Linux expect sudo? Really? I thought that
> was an Ubuntuism.
The CSAIL group I first UROPped with used sudo too on some version of Red
Hat.
> But I can't stand it, and the first thing I do when I reboot after an
> Ubuntu install is set the root password, and I can't remember ever
> setting up an Ubuntu machine for someone else where they didn't either
> ask me for the root password or set it themselves.
I do this for being able to log in as root if I need to for some reason,
and since it's occasionally useful to scp files that only root can read,
but I use sudo most of the time.
> It's really sort of annoying when you need to hunt something down by
> running several privileged commands and need to preface each one with
> 'sudo', and I've had people laugh at me for running 'sudo /bin/sh', so
> I'm not sure what they think the right thing is.
In addition to "sudo -i" that someone else mentioned, there's also "sudo
-s".
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Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
