Re: Packages - what's the best way?
15/11/2010 21:01, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20101115192606.GB18339@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> * 'sudo' uses your user password while 'su' uses root's password.
>> With sudo you manage your own password. With su you manage both
>> your password *and* root's password.
>
> For those that prefer using root's password, sudo has the TARGETPW option.
Hi,
I am no authority on the matter, but from my use of sudo I gathered that
with "targetpw" the expected password is the one of the sudo target (-u
), default to root but can be any user in a multi-user environment. To
always have sudo ask for the root password one should use "rootpw".
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