[nycbug-talk] OS X wireless sniffers and more. . .

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 12, 2004, at 1:59 AM, Isaac Levy wrote:

> Wordup all,
>
> On May 11, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>> Yes. . ..the first thing i did when i bought my ibook was enable 
>>> root, then put my login in the wheel group. . .and installed x11. . 
>>> .of course. . .
>>
>> Why did you enable root?  What's wrong with sudo?  I find sudo -s to 
>> be a more than suitable root login replacement.
>
> Yeah- sudo is the bomb- no need for root at all.
> (want a root shell?  $ sudo bash )

I prefer sudo -s, it uses whatever shell you're currently using (via 
the SHELL variable or /etc/passwd).

-bob