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

[mike at trausch.us]

On 02/03/2012 03:35 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> 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?

The reason that I have options that I "always use" is because I don't
always control the configuration; most of the commands that I do use, I
use with that assumption.  For example:

  sudo -H emacs <file>
  rsync -PavzHAX src dst
  tar xzf (or "xjf" or "xJf", even though in many circumstances tar
           can autodetect the type of compression, it won't work for
           streams that tar cannot rewind.)

I could probably go on and on.  :-)

	--- 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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