Re: Giving up on Fedora 9

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:10 -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Kent Borg <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > I frequently do "sudo bash" and go from there.  The only time I miss a 
> > root login is when I want to scp something as root. 
> 
> It is wise to utilize "sudo -i" instead.  And if you want to scp 
> something as root, you can still sudo :-) 

Can't scp *to* the root account, which is probably a good thing, but 
obnoxious if you just want to scp something like a config file from one 
machine to another, where root privs are needed upon write. 

Nb: for my own server machines and my laptop, remote root login via ssh 
is disabled, but for test boxes, I generally don't have anything *but* a 
root account set up, as a large portion of what I need to do on said 
test boxes requires root privs anyway, and they're just test systems 
that get reinstalled regularly anyhow... 

I'd be curious to sit down at the same machine that initiated $subject 
though. I've installed Fedora 9 on a ton of systems, all without any 
problems, but I'm rather entrenched... Would be curious to know more 
details on where/why we're falling down... 


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