sudo meaning - Decision Point
81 sudo lets you run commands in your own user account with root privileges. su lets you switch user so that you're actually logged in as root. sudo -s runs a shell with root privileges. sudo -i.
81 sudo lets you run commands in your own user account with root privileges. su lets you switch user so that you're actually logged in as root. sudo -s runs a shell with root privileges. sudo -i.
sudo bash & sudo sh: Anything after the sudo is a program to run - so in these cases you are asking to run a couple of shells - bash and dash respectively. use man bash and man sh for more details on.
sudosudo sudo sudo"substitute user.
Understanding the Context
In that case, use: sudo su - to execute a login shell as root after auhenticating sudo, and that shell will not need sudo to run admin commands. To return to the normal user shell, insert the command exit.
It seems is a good practice to create the wheel group for non-password sudo authentication instead of altering sudo group itself. sudo groupadd wheel then in file /etc/sudoers add.
Running sudo apt-get update (or sudo aptitude update) updates this on your local system. This is the step that actually retrieves information about what packages can be installed,.
sudo su - This time it is a login shell, so /etc/profile, .profile and .bashrc are executed and you will find yourself in root's home directory with root's environment. sudo -i It is nearly the same as.
Key Insights
0 sudo is a command that give you root privilege. But sh is an interpreter. When you use sudo command, you running the command as root privilege. But when you use sudo sh command,.
On one particular machine I often need to run sudo commands every now and then. I am fine with entering password on sudo in most of the cases. However there are three sudo commands I.
107 sudo -i is the way to go if you don't want to be typing a password every 10 mins while doing modifications in your system (or other systems), and you don't want to modify any system files..
