Root login

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 09:03, Raphaël Pinson wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 December 2006 06:00, Tez wrote:
> > > I'm going to skip the whole "why you shouldn't log in as root" part, as
> > > I assume you know all about that, and just tell you how to do it.
> >
> > Renaud wanted to log in for a backup.  Some backup software -- I use
> > Mondo --
> > doesn't work with sudo.
> > --
>
> How do you mean it doesn't work with sudo?

Try it.  If you try to back up any files that you don't own, it tells you that 
it can't (or won't) do it with sudo.  I 'su -c mondo' and everything works 
fine.

>
> `sudo -i` and `sudo -s` provide you a root console that lets you use this
> program just the same as if you were logged as user root.

So if you get a root console, with all of its insecurities, why is doing it 
that way better than just su?


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