Re: Sudo

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:31:35AM +0000, mick crane wrote:

[...]

> The only effective difference for me between "su -" and sudo seems
> to be that if you are in a directory you don't have permissions and
> want to change something sudo keeps you in the $PWD whereas "su -"
> puts you in /root and you have to go find it again.

That's because "-" tells su to do that. Drop the "-" and it'll leave
you in the current dir (among other details, consult the man page for
details).

Cheers
-- tomás

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