[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[Will Langford]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com>wrote:

> I wonder why that is?
> it didnt used to be like that did it, on older versions on Ubuntu?
>


There was a thread a few months ago about this.  Basically, some security
minded folks think you should run commands with escalated privileges, not
run a shell with escalated privvies.  Thus, you shouldn't have a root shell,
but rather `sudo command` for each special thing you need to do.

While not in full agreement with the philosophy, we do have a new guy here
at work that does *everything* as root while fiddling with his development
stuff.  A tad irritating :)

-Will