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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>

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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, ...



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