ubuntu & sudu

Dragos Neagu dragos.neagu at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 21:46:42 MST 2005


On 9/27/05, Anthony <aboynes at gmail.com> wrote:
> hrmm.
>
> I believe "sudo" is the command you want.
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On 9/27/05, Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu> wrote:
> >
> > After seeing the many comments about ubuntu and having some free space
> > on one of my drives I decided to install ubuntu and have a look. I used
> > pre-existing swap & /home partitions. Having heard that ubuntu didn't
> > like root login or su -, I found and read some comments about ubuntu &
> > sudu on the ubuntu site. (I don't agree with their philosophy, but can
> > see why they did things that way and can live with it.)
> >
> > My problem? I've tried both the 5.10 Breezy Badger Preview and 5.04
> > Hoary Hedgehog (love those names)--and on both, when I bring up a
> > terminal window and type sudu (anything), I get the message that sudu is
> > not found! "/sbin/sudu", man sudu, and "find / -name sudu" all failed to
> > find a trace of sudu!
> >
> > What the !@#$%^ am I doing/not doing that sudu is in hiding?
> >
> > -mj-

I'm on 5.10 breezy badger preview, and yes it is sudo.

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