Root sudo? (was Re: Cron Job Failure)

From: Mike Burger (mburger_at_bubbanfriends.org)
Date: 04/26/05

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    On Tue, April 26, 2005 12:50 pm, Allen Chen said:
    > Hi, all
    >
    > I got another problem with RedHat 9. The sudo doesn't work any more
    > with root. It hangs. But it still works with other users.
    >
    > I don't if anybody has the same issue or not.
    >
    > Allen.

    First, it's poor form to snarf another topic/thread, and start up a new
    question that's unrelated to the previous.

    Having said that, as I'm no longer running RHL9, I can't answer on that
    front...however, I've never run into this.

    Realizing, up front, that this doesn't answer your question, I do have
    ask...why would you bother using sudo as root? The whole point of sudo is
    to be able to run commands as root...if you're already root, why would you
    need to use sudo? 

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