[CentOS] strange su behavior
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 21:22:57 UTC 2010
>>>> Do you have any sudo call from your /etc or /etc/skel bashrc or profile...?
>>> Yes, I do have in /etc/bashrc:
>>> sudo -l
>> Unless you already understood:
>> su - "make the shell a login shell"
>> so sudo -l in bashrc is executed, which asks for the user's password
> Understood, who is asking - not understood why "sudo -l" is asking for
> the password and why just hitting the enter key works
sudo -l
lists the commands that you are allowed to run with sudo
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