{"id":7,"date":"2006-06-29T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T07:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-07-20T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T11:38:59","slug":"sudo-vs-su","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"sudo vs su"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, there was a discussion on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hantslug.org.uk\">Hantslug<\/a> mailing list about the relative merits of Sudo verses su. At the time I was using Debian, and had not configured Sudo, so was therefore a su user.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I have installed Ubuntu 6.06. Ubuntu, for those that don&#8217;t know, does not setup a root password by default, and Sudo is the recommended method of gaining root privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Having played with it for a little while, I an now converted. I like the idea of using Sudo to allow the execution of one off commands as root. I will still use su if I am going to do lots of work as root, but as Ubuntu is pretty well sorted out of the box, I don&#8217;t need to do that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, there was a discussion on the Hantslug mailing list about the relative merits of Sudo verses su. At the time I was using Debian, and had not configured Sudo, so was therefore a su user. Since then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}