Yeah I only use sudo once, for the su.
… but why? “sudo -i” is a thing. Why get another program involved?
It’s easier to just call su once and run every single command as root rather than having to randomly use sudo for some commands and not for others (/s if it’s not obvious)
But you can do that without involving ‘su’.
I don’t use sudo.
Ever.
It’s disabled by default in slackware, and I don’t know why it’s even there.Tell me how you can run rm rf / no preserve root without su, I’m waiting.
Is this some kind of joke going over my head or something?
Run “sudo -i” then run “rm -rf --no-preserve-root”
Yeah I’m just joking around. I pretty much never use su except in rare cases
Straight to jail.
I just delete every user but root.
I’ve seen that piece, mostly in beginner instructions, for a root shell. But does it even make sense? Why run a elevated su? Just run su.
I think some distros don’t expose or create a root password and make you do sudo su. I might be wrong.
How else will the OS know I’m serious ?
“Yes, Do as I say!”
But rm -fr / * seems not to work for removing the French language pack. Can someone confirm if it works with sudo?
Ah, I see your problem, you need to add
--no-preserve-root.See the French are super into wine - and grape vines are notoriously hard to get rid of, so if you want to really get rid of the French language pack, you need to rip that grapevine out by the root (e.g. don’t preserve the root). Otherwise, the French language pack will just grow back harder and Frenchier than before.
Sacrebleu!
Mondieu!
How could I have forgotten that?
Don’t need sudo if you’re always root.
Now excuse me. I need to call the bank and find out why my checking account is suddenly $0.
And yet half the time when I’m root I preface with sudo. I can’t stop myself!
I once did a HackTheBox where the privilege escalation weakness was a cronjob running a script. I’m not sure if I correctly remember all the details, but I think it read some parameters from a file and fed them to some other script. Since it had something to do with the webserver the user was administrating, they needed write access to the file, granted via ACL. That took me a while to spot, actually. Not sure why, but ACL is a constant blind spot for me. As for passing the parameters, you can just append the contents of the file to the command and pipe it to bash.
I don’t recall what the normal script did, but it needed writing permissions for something. The proper way to do this would be ACL, but I guess I’m not the only one with a blind spot. The easy way to ensure the script can do whatever it needs to is to
sudothe whole thing.So what do you do if you have a script running every ten minutes, reading the first line of a file you can edit, then executing it with superuser privileges?
Whatever the fuck you want.
You mean we shouldn’t have a ‘while true; eval $file’ job running as root??? Goddammit, someone help me fix my remote admin script!!!
Huh. I might need to take a peek at one of my cronjobs now. 😂
sudo man sudo
Sudo !!
👌👌👌 perfection
I came here to look for this.
So for all that time one could do THIS?
sudo bash
sudo -i
ooo what’s that one do?
Starts an interactive session as root (or another user when combined with -u)
It provides a login shell - like
su -So you get the full environment from that user
…Yes, I know.
sudo -istarts a login shell as the specified user. Login shell means it’ll read that user’s bashrc/zshrc/whatever other login files and apply those. If no user is specified, then it’ll login as root, so you get a root shellGives you a shell where you basically are sudo for every command.
OMG. There’s literally more ignorance and bullshit than words in that sentence. It is so wrong that not even the opposite is true. I hope that was sarcasm - in which case I draw my hat because it would be a true peace of art.
Before voting me down, be sure toman environ- and be sure you’ve understood at least what the environment variables do. If that is too hard for you, at least find out what the difference between a binary and a UID might be.
No arguments, just downvotes… I almost suspect some participants do not even understand what might be wrong with “you are sudo”? I also bet you don’t have the right idea what the difference between effective UIDs might be depending if you’re using “su”, “su -i” , "su - " sudo or “sudo su”. The differences are not exactly subtile and I dare to say admins on unixoids who don’t know them are basically talking heads without an idea what they’re actually talking about.
Pfft. Real men always log in as root.
You got that right. https://www.garyshood.com/root/
All you need is a single sudo su, correct.
- Turn on monitor.
- Sudo su
- Copying and pasting terminal commands I find off the Internet
- Living life to the fullest.
alias rm="rm -rf"; alias cd="rm ~/Desktop; cd"; pyhton="shutdown now"People wouldn’t just go on the Internet and lie… would they?
This is the way.
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Look at OP, claiming to have that mythical girlfriend who will make a sandwich without escalating privileges
