Re: new tab or new terminal

2012-05-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
BG: > > Is it better from a security standpoint to su - in a tab as I have > been doing or should I open another terminal for this user? Following the principle of running few processes as root, su-ing is the way to go. That way, the terminal still runs as your primary user, you have only one roo

new tab or new terminal

2012-05-25 Thread BG
To monitor my system I usually open a terminal and run htop and then open another tab and run gkrellm. This is as a user without sudo privileges. I recently began using tcpspy and then tail syslog | grep tcpspy in yet another tab. However my user doesn't have sudo privileges so I have to su - t