Re: st: Updating Stata on a Unix box without logging in as root

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

This reminds me of this comic http://xkcd.com/149/ . I know this is tangential, but I hope 
worth a good laugh.

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-10-04 6.34 PM, Shige Song wrote:
> Use sudo.
>
> Shige
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Partha Deb<partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>  wrote:
> > I have a box running Suse Linus on which I have Stata-MP 11 installed.
> >   Although I have administrator (root) privileges, I'd like to be able to
> > update Stata when I'm logged in as me.  I know I set this up on my old box,
> > but I can't, for the life of me, find any hint of how I did it.  Your help
> > will be most appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Partha
> >
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