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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Apr 2021 03:24:13 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 3:12 AM Andrew C Aitchison
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>
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
>
> >  The major issue I find is that everything at the system level is sudo
> > -- however, for Ubuntu, I have found the fixes so that I can become root and
> > do what I need both from a text interface and a GUI interface.
>
> I find sudo on Ubuntu much easier to use than sudo on SL6.
> By default on Ubuntu you can run succeccive sudo commands without
> reentering the password each time.
> I never figured out how to do that with SL.

SL 6 is.... 10 years old. It's not  a fair comparison. It certainly
works well with more recent releases.

> When I need to use pipes or redirect stdin and stdout as root,
> a simple "sudo bash" first solves those issues.
>
> --
> Andrew C. Aitchison                                     Kendal, UK
>                         [log in to unmask]

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