I successfully built the linux from scratch temp toolchain

[Michael Havens]

it is best practice but the linux from scratch book says that:

  The commands in the remainder of this book must be performed while
  logged in as user root and no longer as user lfs.

so I am thinking I should su to root but am unsure
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> BEst practices rely on the use of SU and Sudo/SUdoers to perform any of
> the elevated tasks. This prevents any unrecognized code from getting away
> from you. this includes root not being able to log in under most
> circumstances and especially via ssh. This is what i would stick with,
> there is likely a very large plethora of online reading on the subject.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now they say: (section 5.36)
>>   Note
>>   The commands in the remainder of this book must be performed while
>>   logged in as user root and no longer as user lfs.
>>
>> The problem is that I do not know how they want me to become root (or if
>> it matters). To become root I can either 'su' or 'exit' my current shell to
>> the previous one. So what do you recommend? Does it matter?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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