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.
I normally disable root, so I don’t think su would work. Never tried, so maybe I am using it wrong.
doas
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.
Huh. I might need to take a peek at one of my cronjobs now. 😂
You mean we shouldn’t have a ‘while true; eval $file’ job running as root??? Goddammit, someone help me fix my remote admin script!!!
Sudo !!
👌👌👌 perfection
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?
How else will the OS know I’m serious ?
“Yes, Do as I say!”
Sudo -iYeah 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
I just delete every user but root.
sudo man sudo
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?
Pfft. Real men always log in as root.
You got that right. https://www.garyshood.com/root/
Just once.
sudo -s
