Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

[ubiquitous1980]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:56 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
>
>   
>>> The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su
>>> (or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this
>>> situation.
>>>       
>
>   
>> localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd -l root
>> Password changed.
>> localhost ubiquitous1980 # exit
>> exit
>> ubiquitous1...@localhost ~ $ su
>> Password:
>> su: Authentication failure
>> ubiquitous1...@localhost ~ $ sudo su
>> Password:
>> Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
>> su: User account has expired
>> (Ignored)
>> localhost ubiquitous1980 #
>>     
>
> What's your point?
>
>
>   
That you stated that the root account was hardly locked if I can sudo su
into it.  If you take me as truthful, then you can see that I have done
exactly that: locked the account and sudo su'ed into it.  I think you
already knew that was possible, so I am countering the semantics of the
issue.