14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
4:27 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:49:39PM +0000, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Sean Conner
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:16 AM
Too much typing: "sudo -s" ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
It was thus said that the Great Jochen Kunz once
stated:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:48:15 +0000
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Ditto, and a decent security measure too.
> It would be acceptable as a security measure
to restrict root login to
> the local text console. This prevents "missuse" of the root account but
> makes the system accessible in the event of a failure. If e.g. NIS
> breaks you can't get into a Ubuntu machine to fix the problem. All you
> can do in that situation is to hit the reset button and boot single
> user. But that is an other story...
GenericUbuntuNonRootUserPrompt% sudo vi
(while in vi)
:shell
Have fun.
-spc (Has had to do that a few times on fresh
Ubuntu installs)
That's an awful lot of schratzing around to accomplish what a simple
GUNRUP% sudo /bin/bash