for everyone whose sick of sudo read this

Ed Cogburn edcogburn at hotpop.com
Sat Jul 2 08:49:55 UTC 2005


Ed Fletcher wrote:

> "sudo su -" will also give you root in a terminal but the environment


And the truly lazy can just make a bash alias/function to turn this into
"s", or something.  And yes, laziness is a subject I am more than qualified
to speak about: startx -> x, mcedit/kate -> e, most/less -> v, ls -la -> d,
etc, etc. :)

However, I arrived at Ubuntu the hard way, by an in-place upgrade from
Debian, so my root has always been enabled.  How does Ubuntu "disable" it? 
Modify root's line in /etc/passwd in some way, or by some option in
login.def, or some pam thing?






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