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- To: MLUG Members <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Subject: Re: [MLUG] Unable to use the 'locate' command
- From: Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:42:40 -0500
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On 7/6/05, Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> "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?
OK, so maybe I'm hallucinating, but isn't there also a difference in
how/where files can be created? I remember a spiel about how sudo
could help you avoid some race conditions or something. (And I could
be totally wrong on this.)
jking
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