Re: PATH nfg after su

From	"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: PATH nfg after su
Date	2020-10-24 21:20 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 06:49:52PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 15:11 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote
> > > > Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me.  Not only are you
> > > > wastefully
> > > > running two programs when you only need one.
> > > It's useful (essential?) if you want a root shell when there's no
> > > root
> > > password set like on Ubuntu (and optionally on Debian).
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > "sudo -i" does exactly that: Run a shell as "root" and ask for the
> > password of the user calling it.
> 
> Thanks. Debian has su installed as part of a required package so I
> never bothered installing sudo, it just seemed to be an Ubuntu thing.
> 
> -- 
> Tixy
> 
sudo su - has one advantage: it gives you root's path and root's home directory - so you end up in /home/root or wherever root's
home is set to. Otherwise, you end up, potentially, in the calling user's home directory.

Just my 0.02c

Andy

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PATH nfg after su Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-10-23 04:40 +0200
  Re: PATH nfg after su Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-10-23 05:50 +0200
    Re: PATH nfg after su Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-23 14:10 +0200
    Re: PATH nfg after su Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-23 14:20 +0200
      Re: PATH nfg after su Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-23 14:40 +0200
        Re: PATH nfg after su Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-23 14:40 +0200
        Re: PATH nfg after su Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-10-23 15:20 +0200
          Re: PATH nfg after su Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-23 20:00 +0200
            Re: PATH nfg after su Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-23 20:10 +0200
            Re: PATH nfg after su "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-10-24 21:20 +0200
              Re: PATH nfg after su <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-24 21:40 +0200
    Re: PATH nfg after su "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-10-23 14:20 +0200

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