From: Tim Boyer 

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:31:59 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>I do not want to normally be logged in as root. How can I from the bash
>command line log in as root for just that command line session?

Either su -

[tim{at}melbourne tim]$ su -
Password:
[root{at}melbourne root]#

or sudo.  Sudo is complicated but can give you exquisite control over who
can run what where.

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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