[kwlug disc.] Doom 3 install permissions...

[Chris Irwin]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:46 -0400, R. Brent Clements wrote:
> Sudo lets you run a program with root privilages using your regular
> login password (tho it is possible to create users that don't have
> that ability obviously).  su will start a shell under a different
> user--by default root--by specifying the root password.  if you are
> root, you can use su to "log in" as any user without a password.  so
> if you type "sudo su -" into your shell, it will ask you for your
> password if you haven't typed it in in the last couple of minutes, and
> the sudo program grants root permissions to the su program to create a
> shell for the default user--root--and doesn't need the root password
> to do it.

If you're going to do `sudo su -` , you may as well just use `sudo -i` .
The -i is for "simulate initial login" (from `man sudo`), which is what
the trailing dash does for su.

-- 
Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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