> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2024 at 9:02 PM
> From: "Alain D D Williams" <a...@phcomp.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: sudo makes me appear to be logged in again
>
> I am running Debian 12.7
>
> I logged in via ssh at 16.14 and then went: sudo -s
>
> If I run "w" I now appear to be logged in twice (1.52 is the current time):
>
> addw pts/0 2001:4d48:ad51:2 16:14 40.00s 0.02s 0.01s sudo -s
> addw pts/1 2001:4d48:ad51:2 01:52 3.00s 0.00s 0.01s sudo -s
>
> So I am now on a different tty and the old one shows idle time.
>
> I get similar results if I run "who".
>
> ps shows interesting results:
>
> # ps -f
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> root 28669 28644 0 01:52 pts/1 00:00:00 sudo -s
> root 28670 28669 0 01:52 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/bash
> root 28979 28670 0 01:59 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -f
> # ps -fp28644
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> root 28644 1819 0 01:51 pts/0 00:00:00 sudo -s
>
> What is happening ?
>
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>
man sudo..........
-s, --shell
Run the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is
set or the shell specified by
the invoking user's password database entry. If a command is
specified, it is passed to the
shell as a simple command using the -c option. The command and
any args are concatenated, sepa-
rated by spaces, after escaping each character (including white
space) with a backslash ('\') ex-
cept for alphanumerics, underscores, hyphens, and dollar signs.
If no command is specified, an
interactive shell is executed. Most shells behave differently
when a command is specified as
compared to an interactive session; consult the shell's manual for
details.
