[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

David Braley davbraley at comcast.net
Sun Dec 10 12:44:09 MST 2006



Bob Proulx wrote:
> I always have /usr/sbin:/sbin in my PATH as a normal user.  There are
> just too many useful commands there to be without.  Then 'su' which
> just changes the user is fine.  (And I would guess that Kevin and many
> others do too.  :-)
>
> Really I would recommend setting up 'sudo' and using it instead.
> Using 'sudo' seems a better way to go as a general recommendation to
> newbies.  Example:
>
>   sudo ifup eth0
>   

One of the first things I do when I install on a machine is set up sudo.
It was Anthony that turned me on to that!

David



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