Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

[pk]

ubiquitous1980 wrote:

>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html

> With "sudo su - " the man pages do not have ESC throughout.  I have
> learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is
> bad practice and that the correct command is $ sudo su -

No need to guess. Messing with superuser privileges without a proper
superuser environment (paths etc.) is considered bad from a security
point of view; for instance, an malicious application could be installed
in your user home dir, prepend the path to this to your local user $PATH
and whenever you do "su" (without -) you could invoke this app with
superuser privileges...
So to summarize: The link above (debian.org) explains it quite well and
yes, I would say it's a bad habit to omit -. :-)

Best regards

Peter K