[nzlug] CentOS and the "joys" of rpm based systems

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:16:50 +1300
Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:10:12 Nevyn wrote:
> > ("sudo su -" for you Ubuntu users out there).
> 
> The -i option to sudo will achieve what you are trying to do there.
> 
> hads
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sudo su - is a bit pointless really... as the audit trail is then lost. Without that you might as well (set and) pass the root password around.

My $0.02,

Steve


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