Terminal not launching with different config files

[lecas malecas]

what about: sudo -i

I believe you don't need to keep writing sudo after.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:54 PM, houghi <houghi at houghi.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 06:54:15PM +0100, Richard Kenyon wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:43 +0200, houghi wrote:
>> > As I do a lot of editing and playing around with the system, having one
>> > specific for root makes me make less errors then doing su each time and
>> > is less cumbersome then doing sudo each time. Yes, I am fully aware of the
>> > dangers of having a terminal with root and that is why I want it to be
>> > clear that that ones IS root.
>>
>> Why don't you just use sudo?
>
> To cumbersome when you use it all the time.
> Using sudo:                             Being root
> sudo vi /etc/whatever                   vi /et/whatever
> sudo /sbin/something                    something
> sudo /usr/sbin/rcapache restart         rcapache restart
> sudo /usr/local/sbin/what               what
> ...
>
> So I do not need to type in the whole path, nor do I need to type sudo as
> I am already root. There are ways around that. Those will make it _FOR ME_
> more prone to do errors.
>
> To me it is also much better to differentiate that 'houghi' is a user and
> 'root' is the administrator of the machine. Using 'sudo' all the time,
> every time will make that difference disapear. It will mean that user
> 'houghi' can do what he wants.
>
> The next step would be to edit sudoers as it is just a single user
> machine.
>
> The few times I still use sudo is if I ssh to the machine and only need to
> do one or two commands max. The moment I need to do more I will use `su -`
> and get stuff done.
>
> houghi
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