[OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

[David Brodbeck]

Well, true, but it's root's command history.  Which may not be relevant to
what I'm actually doing at the moment.  And in some OS's I use the root
shell doesn't have command history at all.


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz at druber.com>wrote:

>
> I'm confused.  I use 'sudo -i' exclusively, and whenever I get in, I have
> valid command history.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brodbeck [mailto:brodbd at uw.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ken Gunderson
> <kgunders at teamcool.net>wrote:
>
> > On a boxes where I, or one or two others I know and trust, are the only
> > admin(s), I find sudo a complete pita and never use it.  When I want
> > root it's because I need to get something done and sudo just gets in my
> > way and adds unnecessary typing w/o any benefit - if I'm going to make a
> > typo or brain fart so bad as to blow up the box, sudo is not going to
> > save me.  Much better to actually have a # in your prompt and adhere to
> > the old sysadmin adage of sitting on your hands for 5 seconds before
> > hitting enter...
> >
>
> Hm.  For me it's the opposite; I now use sudo almost exclusively on my home
> boxes, and rarely su to root.  Part of it is I've come to rely heavily on
> command history and command recall, and having to start all over with an
> empty history (and, if I'm doing "su -", chdir back to the right working
> directory) is a hassle.  Some of the OS's I work with (FreeBSD, in
> particular) have very basic statically-linked shells for root, in order to
> make system recovery easier, and these often lack good tab-completion and
> command history features.
>
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> David Brodbeck
> System Administrator, Linguistics
> University of Washington
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David Brodbeck
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