CentOS - Mar 2010 - root privilleges momentarily

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

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Cordialement, / Greetings,
Georghy FUSCO

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.