[lug] sudo better than su (was: Using consoles)

[John Edwards]

At 10:46 AM 9/29/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>first of all...don't telnet, use ssh.  Secondly, you should never ever ever
>send your root password across the wire.  If you want to login as root, use
>"sudo su -".  That will create a sudo "wrapper" around the "su -" command.
>That way you'll be logged in as root, but still have all of the benefits of
>sudo (i.e. logging!!).  Also, you won't have to send your root password
>across the wire.

	I've heard about sudo, but what is ssh?



John
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