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Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo



On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:14:26AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 07 Aug 2018 at 15:31:43 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote:
The Wanderer (2018-08-07):

> > Anyone who learns the user's password can obtain the second password
> > pretty easily.
> How so?

Just insert a fake su in their path. There are more subtle ways.

This does make me wonder why nobody here seems to have pointed out
that su should be spelled "/bin/su -". My fingers have been wired
that way for 20 years.

Because it's unnecessary extra typing?


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