Re: [MLUG] Unable to use the 'locate' command

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

"sudo" allows one to execute programs in either a user's $PATH by name 
or any program if full path is given with root-level permissions. "su" 
changes your identity to root and thus changes the path to /usr/sbin, 
etc. "sudo" must be given for each command but "su" needs only to be 
called once in the shell session. "sudo" is safer because you have to 
intentionally call it for each command. Does this help?

Phillip

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Phillip Kelchen wrote:
>
> > P.S. I just remembered that KDE 3.4 won't even let you log in as root 
> > unless you change the line that says "Allow root login" to "true" in 
> > the config file. It will by default pop up an error message that says 
> > that root login is not allowed.
>
>
> I don't know why anyone should ever log into KDE as root.  It is best 
> to log in as a user, then use "su" in a terminal window to become root 
> when needed.  Apparently, "sudo" is an even better option than "su" 
> but I haven't used it much yet.  (I'm used to "su" because it has been 
> around longer.)
>
> Mike
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