[ale] sudo shells [Was: Stupid Question Time]

[mike at trausch.us]

On 02/03/2012 01:34 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> It's kind of ironic: my motivation is "I like sudo -s because it keeps
> my home directory around" and yours is "I like sudo -i because it does
> not keep my home directory around."
> 
> It's worth noting that using "sudo _some_command_" will also mess with
> your home directory if you run a command that creates files there.

True, but easily avoidable.  Unless there is a good reason that I could
or should run something in my ${HOME} instead of root's home, I use the
-H parameter; in fact I do that as a matter of habit at my own command line.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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