Am 16.10.18 um 11:56 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:09:39AM +0200, Martin wrote: >>> sudo su - www-data -s /bin/sh >> >> Don't use sudo with su. It is evil. >> You want to use 'sudo -i' in this case. > > Fascism is evil. This is just unnecessary.
Good point. > > (I'm guilty of still typing "sudo su -" via muscle memory even after > your messages on the subject. I asked a former UNIX sysadmin colleague > of mine and he does the same. We suspect that it was from our days > supporting Solaris, and a sudo that did not implement -i.) I know. And if I do right, it was not even officially available for Solaris. It came from this Sunfreeware site. Which still exists with a sudo version from 2014. Cheers on that, old man!!
