Thread: use aliases as root
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paai is offline paai
2010-01-12 , 13:22
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Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
If you login as root by just typing "root" then it'll probably run the .shrc file.
Yes, it does.

But then, what is the difference between 'root' and 'sudo gainroot'? In other words, what do we need 'sudo gainroot' for?