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

[David Tomaschik]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> 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
>

I don't like to have options I "always use": that's what configuration
files are for.  :)  But I believe -H is equivalent to set_home as an
option in sudoers?



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