[mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting, Unmounting, Partial Mounting?

[Michael ORourke]

Rather than use #2, I just use "sudo su -", enter my password once and then 
I'm able to do maintenance as root.  I didn't know about the "sudo -s" 
syntax.  -Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] External Hard Drives: Mounting, Unmounting,Partial 
Mounting?


>> From: Elisa Gomez
>
>> But I *am* considering switching from Ubuntu. There
>> are a lot of things that irk me about it, mainly that
>> I can't have a damn root account.
>
> 1. "sudo pw root" - lets you set a password for the root account, then
>    you can log in as root.
>
> 2. "sudo -s" - gets you a root command line prompt. That's what I use
>    when I need to do extended operations as root.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ray Ingles                                            (313) 227-2317
>
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