On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 02:15:03PM +0300, J wrote: > > In my opinion, "sudo -i" might be added to the wiki articles. I would > > prefer to see a warning concerning compound shell commands in *sudo* docs. > > > > J, my impressions is that you read some docs strongly suggesting to > > prefix every command instead of just becoming root. > > > Actually it is easier than this. I couldn't use a *root *account on *Live > CD*, at least I didn't know how, so I had to stick with *sudo*. > > And i thought *sudo -i*, you speaking about, is something like > *--interactive*, which is not, how i see now...
The long form is "--login", not interactive. But the "-i" stands in for the interactive shell it gives you. Go figure :-) But yes, in short: with "sudo -i" you enter a shell where you are root, until you leave it with "exit" (or shorter: CTRL-D), which puts you back where you were before. > Will this command ( > > for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /run; do > mount -B $i /mnt/$i; done) > > > work with* root?* I will try to test. I fully expect it to, yes. Cheers -- t
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