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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Yet Another New systemd Feature
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 17:20:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote at 01:31 this Thursday (GMT):
> On 5/8/24 13:32, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> Mmm? What is the advantage?
>
> It really depends on what command you do use and what the target user's 
> account is configured with.
>
> `sudo -i` starts the target user's login shell directly.  So it might be 
> comparable to `sudo bash` if the target user's shell is bash, but will 
> be different if the target user doesn't have bash as their default shell.
>
> I have aliases `si` to `sudo -i` and `s` to `sudo`.  So `si` and `s` are 
> shorter to type and I prefer them.
>
>> I also don't know about it. Why should I use it?
>
> I went on a bit of an embrace and extend sudo to make it streamlined for 
> the environments that I work in.
>
> I've also configured sudo on my personal systems to be able to 
> authenticate to sudo with my ssh key.
>
> I've also created a wrapper that I have in my ~/bin directory that keys 
> off of $0 as to what command to pass to sudo.  So I have ~/bin/ifconfig 
> -> ~/bin/sudo.wrapper so that I can simply type `ifconfig` as my user 
> and it's run with sudo.  It's also authenticated by my ssh key so I'm 
> not prompted for a password.
[snip]


Wouldn't it still try to call itself? Really fascinating solution
otherwise, though.. I might implement that myself.
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