[nylug-talk] Ubuntu's lack of root.

[Mike Allred]

Unless the name of <your-favorite-editor> is <= 3 characters long, in which
case sudoedit is not a shortcut at all.

Long live vim!

/couldn't resist, it's hot out

On 6/30/06, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>
> mike at jurney.org wrote:
> > Seriously.  You shouldn't ever be root unless you're doing something
> that
> > absolutely requires it.  Doing `sudo vim /etc/hosts` is smarter in every
> > way than doing `ssh root at localhost (log in); vim /etc/hosts; (leave root
> > shell sitting around open in an xterm for the next 3 days in case you
> need
> > to do something else); logout;`.
>
> FYI (if you weren't aware already), "sudoedit <some-file>" is a nice
> shortcut for "sudo <your-favorite-editor> <some-file>".
>
> DR
>
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