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Switching to superuser while shell script is running
I have a shell script that contains the following lines:
CURRENT_USER=${USER}
echo $CURRENT_USER
su
echo switch to `who am i`
Once the 2nd line is executed, the shell prompts me to enter the root ...
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Alternative to su/sudo on barebone system
I'd like to run some unit tests in a barebone chroot jail on Solaris. There's no su or sudo, and a copy of su (with libpam.so.1) just returns exit code 1 without any output, with or without ...
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Which is the safest way to get root privileges: sudo, su or login?
I would like to have the root account in safety even if my unprivileged user is compromised.
On Ubuntu you can only use sudo for "security reasons" by default. However I am not sure it is any safer ...
