[sudo-users] sudo -s giving login shell
Pierre-Yves Ritschard
pierre-yves.ritschard at oxalide.com
Wed Mar 16 11:47:57 EST 2005
Todd C. Miller wrote:
> In message <42380026.1040607 at oxalide.com>
> so spake Pierre-Yves Ritschard (pierre-yves.ritschard):
>
>
>>Users here are accustommed to using sudo -s to get a root shell.
>>But it doesn't load the /etc/profile as sudo doesn't load a login shell.
>>sudo ksh -l works fine but I'm wondering if there is a way of making
>>sudo -s start a login shell.
>
>
> In sudo 1.6.8 and above you can use "sudo -i" for this.
>
> - todd
Well actually I wasn't exactly looking for this, but I since after
looking at the source there really is no way to do this, I'll be going
with -i (which i had seen in the manpage already).
I was looking at something that would append -l to the current shell
spawning. Thanks anyway, it works for me.
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