Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use sudo, logged in as a regular user. It's generally considered a > security risk to be logged in as root, and a bit less of a risk to use > sudo or fakeroot.
Aha. I only started using sudo seriously about an hour ago. > Funny, but 'sudo echo $PATH' gives the $PATH of the user, but 'sudo > whoami' says root. Hm, that's not *that* surprising, is it? The first one says, "run the 'echo' command as if you were root" (presumably the $PATH part gets expanded before the call to sudo). The second one says, "run the 'whoami' command is if you were root", and works as expected. > sudo does access the binaries in /usr/sbin, which > are not in the user's $PATH. > Really? My PATH is something like this: /home/krzys/shell:.:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games (Come to think of it this makes no sense, neither /etc/profile nor ~/.bashrc set the path quite like this, but anyway.) Is it a bad idea to have /usr/sbin/ in one's path? For things like /sbin/halt I give the following permissions: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root admin 7796 Jun 25 05:23 halt* -chris
