[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sun Apr 21 12:32:35 CDT 2002


[ On Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 01:38:47 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Thoughts on bash for root
>
> I usually only do su root, so now that I don't need to continue fully logging
> into root as much, I probably won't feel the need.

In that case:

	$ su root -c ksh

Doesn't the Solaris install still let you add users during install?

If so then you _NEVER_ need to login as root, except maybe to effect an
emergency shutdown when there's no time to 'su' (and you're not already
logged in).

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