In <4ce196ad.2070...@googlemail.com>, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >15/11/2010 21:01, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20101115192606.gb18...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> * 'sudo' uses your user password while 'su' uses root's password. >>> >>> With sudo you manage your own password. With su you manage both >>> your password *and* root's password. >> >> For those that prefer using root's password, sudo has the TARGETPW option. > >Hi, >I am no authority on the matter, but from my use of sudo I gathered that >with "targetpw" the expected password is the one of the sudo target (-u >), default to root but can be any user in a multi-user environment. To >always have sudo ask for the root password one should use "rootpw".
You are very much correct. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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