On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Georghy <fusco at wanagain.net> wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm searching for a way to have root privileges momentarily > like on ubuntu with the sudo <user> <command> > > I tried su - <command> and su -l root <command> on my CentOS server but > it doesn't work > how should I do ? > > sorry for the disturbance I'm new in RH Linux distro Sounds like you have your solution... Install sudo and configure it so that particular users can use sudo to temporarily gain root privileges. You may even be able to copy your /etc/sudoers from Ubuntu directly to CentOS.