Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:46:27
Message-Id: 20100228104539.41140633@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. by ubiquitous1980
1 On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
2
3 > > Some ENV variables are unset by sudo.
4
5 You can alter that behaviour in /etc/sudoers. I have
6
7 Defaults:%wheel !env_reset
8
9 and don't see this.
10
11 > > But anyway, "sudo su" makes zero sense :P
12
13 > sudo su makes sense if you want to use the root account while having the
14 > root account locked.
15
16 The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su
17 (or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this
18 situation.
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21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
23
24 Politicians are like nappies
25 Both should be changed regularly, and for the same reason

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