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| From | Curt <curty@free.fr> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo |
| Date | 2018-08-07 20:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <wkeAG-403-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <wk9Ul-13f-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <wkadH-1ac-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <wkano-1dB-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <wkcSd-2RJ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <wkdEC-3p7-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Unorganized |
On 2018-08-07, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:14:26AM -0500, David Wright wrote: >>On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 15:31:43 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote: >>> The Wanderer (2018-08-07): >> >>> > > Anyone who learns the user's password can obtain the second password >>> > > pretty easily. >>> > How so? >>> >>> Just insert a fake su in their path. There are more subtle ways. >> >>This does make me wonder why nobody here seems to have pointed out >>that su should be spelled "/bin/su -". My fingers have been wired >>that way for 20 years. > > Because it's unnecessary extra typing? > I thought his point might be that in typing the full path at least you know you're getting '/bin/su' and not some other 'su' that a malevolent individual might have created in your home directory after prepending HOME to your path, for example (in that malevolent person's effort to elevate himself to superuser status). Maybe he didn't mean that, though, and I've got things all wrong (famous last words). -- Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. --Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin Drescher <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 12:00 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-08-07 12:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-08-07 13:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin Drescher <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 13:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-07 17:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 17:40 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-08-07 18:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-08-07 14:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo likcoras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2018-08-07 14:40 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo likcoras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2018-08-07 14:00 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-07 13:00 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2018-08-07 13:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2018-08-07 13:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-08-07 13:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2018-08-07 14:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 14:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-08-07 15:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 15:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-07 14:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-08-07 15:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 13:40 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2018-08-07 14:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-08-07 13:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 13:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-08-07 14:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 14:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-08-07 15:00 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-07 15:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-08-07 15:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-07 15:40 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-07 18:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-07 18:40 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-07 18:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-07 19:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-08-07 20:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-07 20:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-08-07 20:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-07 20:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 15:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-08-07 15:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-07 15:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-08-07 15:50 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2018-08-07 21:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-07 22:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-07 15:20 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2018-08-07 16:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-08-07 15:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-08-07 15:40 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-07 18:10 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-07 14:30 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-08-07 16:00 +0200
Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-08-07 18:30 +0200
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