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0 pointstetris113y ago0 comments

I also wonder....

    function sudo { su -c "$@"  root }

though I guess half the struggle is enabling sudo without a password

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"sudo" asks you for your individual password. "su root" asks you for a single root password

To be precise, whether sudo asks for your password or the target's password is configurable, and different distros have different defaults.

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"sudo" asks you for your individual password. "su root" asks you for a single root password

To be precise, whether sudo asks for your password or the target's password is configurable, and different distros have different defaults.

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