Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
Dnia 26-03-2008, śro o godzinie 22:31 +0100, Benny Amorsen pisze:
> "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> compared to the difficulty of making use of things like route as a user...
>> what is the difficulty of editting the .bash_profile manually to extend
>> the path?
> It isn't really practical when you have several servers. Yet another
> setting which needs to be applied on install (in kickstart) and
> checked after upgrades.
>
> Easier to just su - and run the commands.
"su -" requires password.
[HERETIC]
With sudo you can omit password, by an option.
[/HERETIC]
Or you could let the first-added user run sudo commands with his own
password instead of having a usable root password as seems fashionable
these days. I hated that the first time I encountered it, but you just
have to get used to typing 'sudo su -' when you want to stay root for a
while.
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