Re: [LUG] sudo (was: lshw -html UPDATED)

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Paul Hirst wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:49 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
> > If you really can't modify the file, then stop mucking about with sudo and
> > do a real su;
> >
> >    su -
> >
> > then you're really root and anything sudo might do won't get in the way.
> > If you don't have su, then sudo /bin/bash will work.
>
> My preferred incantation under Ubuntu is
>
> sudo su -
>
> To get a proper root environment. Anyone have other, better
> incantations?

apt-get purge sudo

Gordon

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