Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 03:02:31 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root shell Message-ID: <20090302030231.26d42cda.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090301112154.4b4af511@gom.home> References: <d2f26f270903010650h243df36bx2ea07d434567633e@mail.gmail.com> <20090301185131.GA52432@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20090301112154.4b4af511@gom.home>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:21:54 -0800, prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote: > besides, you don't really need to, do you? > i just log in with su -m and get to use my own account's aliases etc, > but as root. Furthermore, since the introduction of the sudo command (which is installabe by ports / package) prefixing commands with "sudo" seems to be okay for most tasks. And as you said, Prad, using FreeBSD's su command (su -m) will usually do just fine. Another "wisdom" about this topic: "If you see that you're spending so much time as 'root' that you feel you need to change the root shell to BASH, you're obviously doing something wrong." :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090302030231.26d42cda.freebsd>