Re: [SLUG] WAS about Linux THANKS

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 18:33:20 EST


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:01:30PM -0500, Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I find it impossible to get things done without spending an
> > enormous amount of time going back and fourth between being
> > the root user and a commoner, to change permissions and
> > ownership's.

hmmm ... sudo is your friend -- change the timeout from 5
minutes, if you turn out not to be in root so often as you
think.

   http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/

Ships with all modern distributions.

-- Russ Herrold



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