Re: Privilege factors

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Gopal Ghosh wrote:
Dear All, could any one help me with Privilege available to *root /su/ sudo and also the difference between the above three *

"root" is a username
"su" is a command which switches who you are logged in as ("substitute user")
"sudo" allows you to run a command as if you were another user (a pun on the word "pseudo")


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[gopalghosh@localhost ~]$ whoami

gopalghosh

[gopalghosh@localhost ~]$ login

login: root

Password:

Login incorrect {why it is saying Login incorrect as I am typing the correct password}

I've never seen the command "login" used in a shell before... most people use su.

check "man login" for details of login if you really want to use it. Otherwise I presume su is sufficient (I've never needed to use "login" myself).

[gopalghosh@localhost ~]$ login

login: root

Password:

Login incorrect

[gopalghosh@localhost ~]$ su

Password:        {when I logged as su it accepted the same password}

[root@localhost gopalghosh]# sudo ls

there is no point doing "sudo ls" as root, as that command basically says "run 'ls' as root".

Desktop  Documents Download  Music  Pictures Public  Templates  Videos

[root@localhost gopalghosh]# exit exit

[gopalghosh@localhost ~]$ sudo nano

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System

Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.

    #2) Think before you type.

    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for gopalghosh:

gopalghosh is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. {how to add my local login in sudoers file}

check your /etc/sudoers file

for general use, there is no real need for sudo. You might need it in a multi-user environment where you want someone to have access to some higher-level functions but not to know the root password.

however, in a one-user environment (a laptop is usually single-user), there's no real point using sudo.

personally, I either su to root, or run something like this:
su -c ls

this is just my opinion - perhaps other people have good reasons to use it.

kae

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