Su asks for nothing if executed as root . . . it already knows it has
authority, so simply changes the user id the command is run as (as I recall,
with "-c" to run a script).
- Tim
On March 7, 2021 2:01:34 PM CST, Roger Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>
>> Why use sudo instead of su for this case?
>
>Wouldn't su ask for the login password? This is not practical in rc.local.
>In addition user nut doesn't have a login password.
>
>Roger
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