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Difference between sudo su - user and sudo -iu user [duplicate]
I was wondering if there were any difference (in environment ?) between doing
sudo su - user
and
sudo -iu user
From what I know:
By using
sudo su - user
I open a new shell as user, and the ...
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Environment variable does not seem to work in sudo
I use apt behind a firewall, so I specify a proxy in the http_proxy environment variable.
What I have done is added the following line to both .profile and .bashrc (for good measure) of the root ...
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Why can I only use apt-get as super user ? Mint 14 Linux
Not sure what info you need here, if any. Just let me know. I have a proxy that bypasses the corporate net set in my profile file for both su and normal user. When I do a sudo or regular apt-get ...
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Why `which tmux` and `sudo which tmux` return 2 different values?
ssh bobby@tony:~$ which tmux
/usr/bin/tmux
ssh bobby@tony:~$ sudo which tmux ...
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Why do you need sudo for “sudo su root”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When do su and sudo use different passwords?
Why do you need to use sudo su root ? Why won't it work to just use su root?
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pass 1 environment variable using sudo
Is this a correct way for passing an environment variable in sudo ?
sudo -u www-data -b env FOOBAR="foobar" /home/user/folder/daemon
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What environment do I get with sudo?
When I run sudo, what exactly happens to my environment?
When I run sudo command, it doesn't seem to see my or root's environment. For example, my path for both includes /usr/local/bin, but if I try ...
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“No protocol specified” when running vim with sudo
Recently I start to get "No protocol specified" when using sudo vim. It's just a warning I guess, because everything was working normally (I can open, edit and save files). The message doesn't appear ...
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JAVA_HOME not set in script when run using sudo
I'm trying to run an install script that requires java to be installed and the JAVA_HOME environment variable to be set.
I've set JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile and also in a file I've called java.sh in ...
