On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:20 -0500, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I'm not clear on how sudo works. Rather than typing "su -" followed > by root's password, can I set it up so that I just type "sudo" and > then I *am* root until I exit? Why do you want to make "sudo" work like "su -"? Just use "su -". If you're hoping to avoid typing in any password, that's a very bad thing. All it would take is for some exploit to use sudo (alone, sans-password), and it could do anything that it wanted. Likewise for any other technique of granting root privileges without typing in the root password. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
