Best way to gain root privileges

Alister Ware alister.ware at ntlworld.com
Wed Feb 16 17:10:46 EST 2011


On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:26:26 +0000, GSO wrote:

> I'm sure this question is as old as time, but what is the best way to
> gain root privileges?  (Am using Python 2.6.5, pygtk2 v2.16, Gtk
> v2.18.9, on RHEL6.)
> 
> Ta,
> 
> 
> G.
> 
> gmotion
> PyGTK desktop GUI for Motion (software motion detector)
> http://code.google.com/p/gmotion/

The easiest way to gain root privileges is to be come sysadmin

Credit to the fortune application & the original anonymous poster

(sorry Couldn't resist that one)

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