[OT] sudo, why not su?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Sun Aug 7 22:49:16 UTC 2005


On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:06:50PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
>On sön, 2005-08-07 at 20:08 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Now, what I wonder is if there is a way to set up your system such that
>> the following is possible:
>> 
>>  usr1$ su -c cmd
>>  Password: <pwd1>
>
>john at newkid:~$ sudo su - -c whoami
>Password:
>root
>
>Does that do what you want?

No!

I want to run su and enter my own password!

Not root's password, my own. I don't want to use sudo to run su, I just
want to run su.

I'm sorry, I'm just getting frustrated with my lack in communication
skills.

/M

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