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Thanks Tim! <br>
A solution to one of the great unsolved (for me at least) problems
of the universe: how to cleanly save that file you have no right to
save after you have made several dozen changes.<br>
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I challenge the emacs crowd to come up with an equivalent.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/21/2014 10:53 AM, Tim Laurence
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<div>I have found <br>
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"sudo bash"<br>
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gives me odd results because it uses a mix of the login and
root environmental configurations.<br>
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<div>It find it is better to do<br>
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<div> sudo su -<br>
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<div>because that reinitializes the environment to be a pure
root one. A shortcut for this is<br>
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<div> sudo -i<br>
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<div>which does the reinitialization within sudo. This can even
be combined with -u<br>
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<div> sudo -u database_user -i<br>
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<div>to gain access to user accounts that may have highly
customized environments such as I have found with several
database servers.<br>
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<div>One last tip for sudo. If you have ever found yourself
editing a config file in vi and find out, when you go to
write, that you forgot to edit as root and the file is read
only to you. Try this vi command<br>
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<div> :w !sudo tee %<br>
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<div>That translates to write to pipe connected to sudo which in
turn pipes to tee which is passed the original file-name as a
output target.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:35 AM,
Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>I use screen to open many shells, and in one
"window", I do:<br>
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$ su -<br>
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Then enter the password<br>
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I am in a root shell in that "window" forever.<br>
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Or, if it is a machine that you are not logged into
all the time, just do:<br>
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$ sudo bash<br>
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Then enter the password<br>
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:20 AM, John Johnson <span
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Is it just me or what? The su has always been
in Linux since forever.<br>
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It is me. Not you.<br>
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Many years ago I looked for SU and was advised to
do all 'root' stuff with $ sudo.<br>
I did not know about $ sudo su<ENTER> until
recently.
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