[Novalug] Opening a root shell with sudo

jecottrell3@comcast.net jecottrell3@comcast.net
Thu Jan 31 12:06:20 EST 2013


Hello! McFly?

What does su run? A SHELL!

JIM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Bidwell" <mbidwell@gmail.com>
To: "Don E. Groves, Jr." <dgrovesjr@gmail.com>
Cc: "Northern Virginia Linux User's Group" <novalug@calypso.tux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:04:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Opening a root shell with sudo

On 01/30/2013 07:22 PM, Don E. Groves, Jr. wrote:
> I see a number of places where they say use something like:
>      sudo su
>
> Why not the simple one that has always worked for me:
>      sudo -i
>
> ( see the 'man sudo'  for what the switch -i does )
>
> --
> --
> Don E. Groves, Jr.
On our large shared the reason is simply for accountability. We actually 
limit sudo to sudo su. If you just let people run a shell under sudo, 
you lose the command level accountability.
Matt
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