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Being root without enabling root
Authored by: reh on Dec 01, '03 11:37:42AM
When I'm doing a lot of stuff as root, I prefer to run
sudo <shell>
In my case, the shell is zsh. This preserves all of my shell configuration files so that all of my preferences and aliases still work when using root.

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