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[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:43:36AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> And why are you messing around in a root shell? Don't have sudo?

Logging in as root is generally a bad idea, but there are perfectly
valid reasons to run in a root shell.  Many times, if you are
administering your system, you will need to run many commands as root
in sequence.  typing "sudo" before each of them gets very tedious in
short order.

Personally, I've set up a command called "root" which (basically) uses
sudo to run xterm with a different window name.  This allows that
xterm to automatically  have a different configuration, i.e. different
background color, making it difficult to type in the wrong window
mistakenly (unless you're color-blind).  When I need to do a lot of
sysadmin stuff on my system, I just run root, type my password, and I've
got a convenient root shell to work in.  I usually also place it on a
different desktop to make it even harder to mistakenly type into.

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