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Thursday, December 2nd 2004, 7:28pm

SUDO - SuperUser

How do I make my account a SuperUser? because I'm getting annoyed with having to type the root password so many times... especially when I'm trying to fix stuff! someone told me I could with SUDO, but I don't know how? does anyone know how to make an account a SU using SUDO or something else? :?: :?:

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Thursday, December 16th 2004, 12:41am

Bad idea, man, very bad. You better stay where you are and type your password every time it's needed, it protects you from many problems. Just think about internet, everyone can get root on your machine easily this way, every code will run. You're on Linux, it uses accounts for users, don't try to change it or you'll be in troubles.
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Thursday, December 16th 2004, 5:57am

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Original von z-vet

Bad idea, man, very bad. You better stay where you are and type your password every time it's needed, it protects you from many problems. Just think about internet, everyone can get root on your machine easily this way, every code will run. You're on Linux, it uses accounts for users, don't try to change it or you'll be in troubles.

I second that. Switching to root every time you need to is meant to be cumbersome. Remember, root is very powerful. Issuing an "rm -rf" command by mistake can wipe out your system files.
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Thursday, December 16th 2004, 6:08am

Yep. I remember some topic in russian Perl developers forum, where some guy posted a script that was looking like line of symbols. "Run it in console" he said... :D I was reading this topic about a year after it started and it still was alive and there were two types of users: those who was logged as root and those who not. Those with root just got an 'rm -rf' since that what this script was doing... After all everybody learned to not to be logged as root everytime.
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ander

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Friday, April 7th 2006, 9:30am

I seem to remember reading about a command where you could type the root p/w once & the system securely encrypted & remembered it for the rest of the current session. Can't remember it offhand, tho.
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Friday, April 7th 2006, 10:02am

KDE Su (kdesu) was able to store root's passwords, but this option seems to be gone since 3.5.2.
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Friday, May 5th 2006, 8:40am

Yeah, it's probably just as well... Now that I've used Linux this much longer, I've really come to appreciate the wisdom of running things as root only when you have to. (Maybe justxaxgothxx feels the same way by now, too.)
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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "ander" (May 5th 2006, 8:41am)