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  • No arguments, just downvotes… I almost suspect some participants do not even understand what might be wrong with “you are sudo”? I also bet you don’t have the right idea what the difference between effective UIDs might be depending if you’re using “su”, “su -i” , "su - " sudo or “sudo su”. The differences are not exactly subtile and I dare to say admins on unixoids who don’t know them are basically talking heads without an idea what they’re actually talking about.






  • Your terminal at boot. That would be TECTONIX or VT100 when your good old VAX has made a boo-boo once more? But I wouldn’t know where to fill any Chinese contact spray (“sudo su”, “Fu Manchu”…) in there. Or do you by any means mean your .bashrc? You know, before sucessfully shooting your own foot you’d need how to load and unlock.


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    12 days ago

    OMG. There’s literally more ignorance and bullshit than words in that sentence. It is so wrong that not even the opposite is true. I hope that was sarcasm - in which case I draw my hat because it would be a true peace of art.
    Before voting me down, be sure to

    man environ
    
    • and be sure you’ve understood at least what the environment variables do. If that is too hard for you, at least find out what the difference between a binary and a UID might be.

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    12 days ago

    You’ve got to be a damn idiot jumping over his own shadow to get that done. How would you even do that? Running

    chown -R root.root
    

    over directories or mount points? Deleting files in /dev or /run and recreating them using “touch” without looking up ownerships before? I wrote “touch” because anyone proceeding to “mknod” would at least have read some man pages. BTW, you’d need su for that rather than sudo.



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    12 days ago

    Some people think before they type. They also do not think mindlessly typing “sudo” before every fucking line in bash is a valid substitute for knowing what they do. Many of them have been doing so for decades on HPUX, Solaris, BSDs and IRIX on their own and other people’s/companies machines, not just on their single bedroom machine.





  • I know. I just had become lazy enough to take the daily notification’s subject line (“backup4l has run successfully”) as evidence that everything was OK. If I had looked inside the bloody mail I’d have notices that the backup’s size was 0B all the time because my self-rolled XZ-compression script failed to add data to the archives it “successfully” created. That’s what I meant with “re-testing” - I should better have written “re-validate”. My unforgiveable fault was not to look directly at the generated archives after changing the compression from bz2 to xz. Which was pretty pointless anyway as it turned out.