On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, George <nutn...@comcast.net> wrote: > I was a little disappointed being called out on my suggestions in my > original post. Obviously the person isn’t a sys admin and from my > understanding the whole purpose of sudo is so the user only has root > privileges for that given command instead of during the entire terminal > session. I personally see nothing wrong with what I suggested other then > using visudo to edit the sudoers file instead of vim. >
i too was disappointed. i tried su and authentication failed. how do i update my system without being able to log in as root? now i don't mind a spirited discussion on the pros and cons of sudo vs. su, but my original question still has not been answered; and with this new development i am really at a loss. you are saying that sudo and su are not available from a user console, then how do i fix this so i can become root when i need to? cheers, dwain -- "Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. " - Kahlil Gibran
