On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 15:25 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > In fact, my password, while longer than most, is about half the length > > of roots, which is so long its not usable with ssh or samba. For that > > reason, I wouldn't mind being forced to use roots password to sudo. > > That's what "su" is for, surely? "su" to become root, "sudo" to pretend > to be root. ---- I don't know, I su to other users (not root) sometimes. Craig