Alan Cox Calls Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro"

[lsatenstein]

That's why you should also append a dot, so instead of "sudo nautilus", "sudo nemo" or "kdesu dolphin", do "sudo nautilus .", "sudo nemo ." or "kdesu dolphin .", they will then default to the directory they were called from. Also, in KDE the shortcut in the K menu is also set to default to starting in ~ instead of /root.




Lithuania. I should probably update my profile to show that, hmm...

I tried the dot, I like it, and will now not be following my old ways.

It reminds me of setting up new path statements with a bash script, only needed to put the dot before the script name.





The closest to Lithuania I have been is Riga Latvia.

[JanC]

You should not even have to run anything as root, except some commands, in which case "su" in a terminal is better than "sudo", because with sudo you either constantly have to type the damn sudo command, or automatically get root rights for a period of time, so the user looses track of what commands run as root, and what runs as user. Better just have a root terminal where one can be sure what commands will run as root and what commands run as user.

With 'sudo -i' (or 'sudo -s' which does some things differently with the environment) you can start a root shell (provided the 'sudoers' config allows that for your user, of course).

[JanC]

Not quite. It was written because gnu su will never limit users from root access because someone decided RMS didn't need root access at MIT (he probably didn't) and it scarred him for life.

Which is exactly what I said, except for using real world examples?

[yogi_berra]

Which is exactly what I said, except for using real world examples?

not really, you said this:

it was "invented" to allow certain users to run certain applications (with certain options) as root (or as a certain user) without (necessarily) needing the root password (or the password of that certain user).

Additionally, it also logs every invocation.

That just explains what sudo does, not why it was written.

[bridgman]

Someone wanted a real world example ?

[lsatenstein]

With 'sudo -i' (or 'sudo -s' which does some things differently with the environment) you can start a root shell (provided the 'sudoers' config allows that for your user, of course).

I recently started to use sudo nautilus . to start the shell with root priviledges in the current directory. I sometimes remain in the shell in order to do change ownerships.
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[uid313]

I recently started to use sudo nautilus . to start the shell with root priviledges in the current directory. I sometimes remain in the shell in order to do change ownerships.
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You should only use 'sudo' for command-line programs.
If you want to run application software with graphical user interfaces then you should use 'gksudo'.

Like "gksudo nautilus ."

[cardboard]

Every distro has a worst release.

[lsatenstein]

You should only use 'sudo' for command-line programs.
If you want to run application software with graphical user interfaces then you should use 'gksudo'.

Like "gksudo nautilus ."

Is gksudo a shell script that calls sudo?

[uid313]

Is gksudo a shell script that calls sudo?

No, it is a binary executable for giving superuser privileges to applications with a GUI.
It is a GTK+ frontend for su and sudo.