Hot Diggety! Edward Ned Harvey was rumored to have written: > Whenever you want to become root, you run: sudo su -
Pardon the digression; just wanted to point out that sudo has (for the last few years) supported sudo -i, which has almost completely negated the need for sudo su - here. To date, we have found exactly one exception in which sudo -i is unsuitable: when (on a Solaris 10 machine) you need to become a role user with a role assigned. E.g. we have a Java glassfish user with a special role that allows it to bind to ports < 1024 so that it can bind to ports 80 / 443. That role is not set up if you don't do an actual login or su; sudo was insufficient. But in all other cases here, sudo -i does the trick. Of course, if one has older sudo, then it's pretty much sudo su - to the rescue. ;-) OK, back to meandering threads. :-) -Dan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
