X-Received: by 10.237.47.162 with SMTP id m31mr7848945qtd.14.1518368026338; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:53:46 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.31.178.206 with SMTP id b197mr804722vkf.11.1518368025828; Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:53:45 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!q21no2006145qtn.1!news-out.google.com!e34ni99qtc.0!nntp.google.com!h20no544147qtm.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.security Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:53:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:647:4a02:7002:5805:23ac:a628:3052; posting-account=IdUijQoAAAAHXa7_LrtIKdJj8fHNSiP2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:647:4a02:7002:5805:23ac:a628:3052 References: <0ab236e7-4a67-48ed-b164-83b74b280c5a@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4d5fab9e-829a-4ece-bb2b-a4e5c12333c6@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: what is the difference between "tsu", "su" and "sudo"? From: mitch@niftyegg.com Injection-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 16:53:46 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Lines: 13 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.security:722 On Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 2:03:20 AM UTC-7, Ian Northeast wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:19:52 -0700, JJ wrote: ..... > > The question is, what is the difference between "tsu", "su", and "sudo"? > > > > I am mainly interested about the "tsu" command regarding which there seems > > to be very little documentation. tsu is a wrapper for su that solves a set of termux issues. It is simple and written in shell (sh). For details see https://github.com/cswl/tsu Yes this is a very old thread but this thread showed up in a search and the web never forgets especially wrong and incomplete answers. ;-)