On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Erik Anderson wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 12:16 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> > wrote: >> >> Is there really no root account? On our Ubuntu system there is one: > > Yes, there is a root account. It just doesn't have a password by > default. It's quite easy to set the root password if you want to - > just run: > > $ sudo passwd root > >> What is the advantage of sudo over su? Does it log activity better? > > Yes, sudo logs all commands that are run through it. su doesn't. This is slightly misguided. Even with sudo, you can sudo su <user> and where the su to <user> will be logged, anything done while su'd is not logged. Only commands invoked directly with sudo are logged. In this case, logging is no better than it is with su. ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks