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Re: Packages - what's the best way?



In <[🔎] 4CE196AD.2070903@googlemail.com>, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
>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".

You are very much correct.
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