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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
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>>> Some ENV variables are unset by sudo. |
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> You can alter that behaviour in /etc/sudoers. I have |
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> Defaults:%wheel !env_reset |
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> and don't see this. |
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>>> But anyway, "sudo su" makes zero sense :P |
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>> sudo su makes sense if you want to use the root account while having the |
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>> root account locked. |
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> The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su |
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> (or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this |
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> situation. |
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localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd -l root |
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Password changed. |
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localhost ubiquitous1980 # exit |
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exit |
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ubiquitous1980@localhost ~ $ su |
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Password: |
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su: Authentication failure |
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ubiquitous1980@localhost ~ $ sudo su |
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Password: |
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Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator |
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su: User account has expired |
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(Ignored) |
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localhost ubiquitous1980 # |
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