[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[adunlop]

I do most of my work as root.  If you don't know the specific and  
detailed consequence of the command you're about to run, you shouldn't  
be running it as any user.  If you haven't double-checked the command  
before you hit enter you deserve what's coming.  I think that using  
sudo to keep yourself from causing damage is a sloppy way of doing shop.

And with anything else, don't run untested commands on a production  
box, and keep backups of all work.

On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Will Langford wrote:

> 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
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