Comments on: Ugly confession http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ugly-confession/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: colonelcrayon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ugly-confession/#comment-37221 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:25:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=1353#comment-37221 Quite frankly, I think that “su” is more secure – especially with that horrid non-zero timeout used by default in Ubuntu.

]]> By: devnet http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ugly-confession/#comment-37217 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:58:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=1353#comment-37217 The thing that gets me is that other users go into other distributions after trying ubuntu and complain “sudo isn’t there!” and they don’t understand that you don’t need sudo to grant permissions (kdesu works fine…etc.)

I hate that all distros are being rationalized in Ubuntu’s image…I think it can only do the wrong thing for Linux in general.

]]> By: Guitar John http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ugly-confession/#comment-37213 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:50:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=1353#comment-37213 “Oh, the shame. :oops: ”

Just be sure to close the drapes first. :shock:

-John

]]> By: MONODA http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ugly-confession/#comment-37208 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:59:00 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=1353#comment-37208 >Why don’t you alias ’su’ as ’sudo su’ in Ubuntu?
sudo and su and used differently, I think that is why he doesnt do that.

]]> By: Leon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ugly-confession/#comment-37207 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:27:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=1353#comment-37207 Why don’t you alias ‘su’ as ‘sudo su’ in Ubuntu?

]]>