Am 2007-12-03 12:26:04, schrieb Michael Pobega: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:10:44AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > 2. There's the (very) slight psychological reminder that you're potentially > > doing dangerous things when you have to take the extra step of typing > > "sudo" before a command. > > I suppose that may be true, but personally I see the # instead of the >, > and I don't have any colouring setup on my root's terminal to remind me > that I'm logged in as root.
Right, I do this too... coloring PS1 can give you problems if
you need to do trouble shooting and the screen is screwing up...
Using b/w terminal is warning enough.
...and if I open a XTerm with su-too-root, then I have configured
it to be RED (!!!) so if I forget to close an iconifies XTerm,
the Icon is RED too.
> > 3. "sudo" automagically handles X permissions, whereas "su" does not.
> Does it really? I always thought it didn't and that's why we have
> gksu/gksudo, but I could be wrong.
"gksu" is no crap, since it requires a bunch (38 MByte) of GNOME
libs where I do not use any GNOME/KDE bloatware...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Tamay Dogan Network
Open Hardware Developer
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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