Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have /root/ symlinked to /home/krzys, so my .bashrc et al get > sourced by root as well. Should I be worried? I understand the > privileged status of root, however, given that 90% of my time on this > machine is spent tweaking it (and not writing my thesis), I become > root about a hundred million times a day. There is sudo, but my > /etc/sudoers is getting pretty long and some things like 'make > install' can't really be done with it (I don't want 'make' in my > /etc/sudoers). All this means that it's nice for root to have an > environment similar to my own, but I'm willing to weigh compelling > arguments against that, > -chris
My sudoers file is basically just hubert ALL=(ALL) ALL If you want root to have a similar environment, but with a few differences, you can always just wrap key assignments in some sort of test on `whoami`. (I'm not that great at shell scripting, so I'm not even going to try to give an example.) Hubert