Hi Emilien,
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:49:46PM +0100, Emilien Klein wrote:
> 2014-02-23 19:53 GMT+01:00 Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilb...@gmx.net>:
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:38:56AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >
> > > > Extract from the manpages:
> > > > sudo:
> > > > sudo, sudoedit - execute a command as another user
> > >
> > > I'd call this a bit confusing since sudo is the command to do something
> > > as superuser.
> >
> > Not really. It just so happens that the *default*
> > target usually is root.
> >
> > Look at "-u username".
>
>
> Correct, sudo is to perform a command as another user (by default
> root, but it can be any user you which), while su is to 'become" that
> other user (and then likely perform commands as that other user).
>
> Only those few commands (in different scripts) need to be performed as
> the database-owning user, all the rest of the process needs to be done
> by root. Using sudo is the correct way to do that.
> I will make sure to Depend on sudo.
As I tried to express this is *not* the correct conclusion in my
opinion. You should use su in your scripts. May be you are trying
to grep /var/lib/dpkg/info for the usage of su / sudo to get some
picture what others are doing.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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