Ubuntu newbe password question ?

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY zamb at saudi.net.sa
Sat Sep 24 21:14:28 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 20:45 +0100, ubuntu at pusspaws.net wrote:
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> > That is very unsafe, use sudo -i for a root shell.
> 
> Thanks for that, 'sudo -i' works great - why is sudo bash so risky ?
Because you'll have _root_ privileges and your *own* environment
variables!  In that case, "$HOME" will point to your home directory and
not root's!  Another example, "$USERNAME" will still contain your login
name and not "root".

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> 
> dave
> 
> 
Ziyad.





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