[CentOS] strange su behavior
Tony Schreiner
schreian at bc.edu
Wed Mar 10 17:26:40 UTC 2010
On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
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> Am 09.03.2010 22:22, schrieb Tom H:
>>>>>> 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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> That is clear to me, but why does this command request the password?
what's the output of
sudo grep root /etc/sudoers
Tony Schreiner
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