On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 15:50:59 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Run the "id" command with no arguments to see your current group > > memberships. You'll see that "sudo" is not one of them. > > I found that if I then tried "id rprice" I could see "sudo".
Yes. "id" with no arguments shows the privileges of the currently running process (whatever id inherits its privileges from, in this case a shell). Running id with a username argument shows the privileges a theoretical login session opened for that user would have. Both are useful, but you have to understand that they both exist and have very different behaviors.
