[Linux] Ubuntu 7.10 and su or sudo

Mike Marschall linux@flux.org
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:17 -0800


On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Danny Rathjens wrote:

> Steven Benmosh wrote:
>> sudo su
>
> sudo already runs the command specified as root, so running a  
> command to switch user to root is quite redundant.
> sudo bash
> Is a more straightforward way to violate sudo security.

sudo -s