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On 2002-10-23 12:05:44 +0100, Colin Morey wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 04:35, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > I dont see ssh as being a good solution in this case. On a firewalled |
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> > single user machine, the complexity of going through ssh (which seems to |
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> > have a patchy history as regards security itself) seems like it might be |
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> > more of a risk (i.e., misconfiguration, security holes etc) as well as |
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> > the inconvenience of an unwieldy command line compared to the |
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> > alternative - simplicity. |
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> personally i find that "su" works, (without the - switch), so sudo su |
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> gives me a root shell, which i can normally run X stuff from. |
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You'd probably want 'sudo -s'. |
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Morten Liebach <m@×××××××.org> -- http://m.mongers.org/ |
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