From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nljl8-0007Id-Ci for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:04:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B109E0964; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F264DE0964 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj19 with SMTP id 19so702711gwj.40 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:03:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nPQ5fYZNsoqpI2lFW5EKso5YpP0FU/2cXo0btfJ5ncc=; b=Y/KdTNyzoOqhoz/zoO4hTHociJyxGqM25LNuNmCGSAcUo5vTMf5FuCmuqP0xpakAsM wUPquKtXd0zR96nnJl6GxNregt8fRwn53g+Qm36snTzVfJ3N2VO7RuEw497gehEY/gft sIF8k9BXygm92owqf7gS7H4TWogKWvbxFU3R4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MRxp7VYJTZkWFjuqkL1NPidCT0zNsr9PnV1t3kxJpDvswQwkYFKA3MuaG3lO8OZc8O VfRwcCYUHFjgvUaCzj/VqLkZtNtakbtbMHb/bCTOIzgkxergifIi4/zo1Dk0sF3PhNRm 9SedPp0qpDKJBIGhfnF50JewECi+PemYAZrtc= Received: by 10.101.64.18 with SMTP id r18mr4151208ank.24.1267365821595; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([120.16.2.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm727616yxd.26.2010.02.28.06.03.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:03:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8A77B8.3010102@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:03:36 +0800 From: ubiquitous1980 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100223) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. References: <4B89E9B0.3040505@gmail.com> <4B89F9E3.3040506@gmail.com> <20100228104539.41140633@digimed.co.uk> <4B8A4A18.80104@gmail.com> <20100228131527.5111e099@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100228131527.5111e099@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 31235f9d-b74a-44f8-8689-7c76257ca2e0 X-Archives-Hash: 24ed90c9c0e964db50e6d19e6517f98c Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:56 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > >>> The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su >>> (or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this >>> situation. >>> > > >> localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd -l root >> Password changed. >> localhost ubiquitous1980 # exit >> exit >> ubiquitous1980@localhost ~ $ su >> Password: >> su: Authentication failure >> ubiquitous1980@localhost ~ $ sudo su >> Password: >> Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator >> su: User account has expired >> (Ignored) >> localhost ubiquitous1980 # >> > > What's your point? > > > That you stated that the root account was hardly locked if I can sudo su into it. If you take me as truthful, then you can see that I have done exactly that: locked the account and sudo su'ed into it. I think you already knew that was possible, so I am countering the semantics of the issue.