On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
The major issue I find is that everything at the system level is sudo
-- however, for Ubuntu, I have found the fixes so that I can become root and
do what I need both from a text interface and a GUI interface.
I find sudo on Ubuntu much easier to use t
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 3:12 AM Andrew C Aitchison
wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
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> > The major issue I find is that everything at the system level is sudo
> > -- however, for Ubuntu, I have found the fixes so that I can become root and
> > do what I need both from a text int
On 2021-04-07 2:11 a.m., Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
The major issue I find is that everything at the system level is sudo
-- however, for Ubuntu, I have found the fixes so that I can become
root and do what I need both from a text interface and a GUI int
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Subject: Re: sudo - was Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.
On 2021-04-07 2:11 a.m., Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
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On 2021-04-07 2:11 a.m., Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
The major issue I find is that everything at the sy
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> On 2021-04-07 9:28 a.m., Teh, Kenneth M. wrote:
>> If you need to run a lot of commands as root, the easiest sudo method
>> is simply 'sudo su -' which makes you into root. The trailing '-'
>> does a login which replaces your environment with root's.
On 4/7/21 9:37 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux w
Probably not applicable to many installations, but when I was the sole admin for
a couple of compute clusters, raid systems, and numerous backend servers,
*everything* I did required root privs, so I just set them all up so when I
ssh'd in, I was root. Didn't have time to mess with the extra su