On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like > > with:- > > > > sudo -s > > Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use > > sudo -i > > so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment nor vice versa.
And on machines with older sudo (I've got some older RHEL servers), I use: sudo su - Which does the same. Regards, Tyler -- "For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted." -- Frantz Fanon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/