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    19 hours ago

    OMG. There’s literally more ignorance and bullshit than words in that sentence. It is so wrong that not even the opposite is true. I hope that was sarcasm - in which case I draw my hat because it would be a true peace of art.
    Before voting me down, be sure to

    man environ
    
    • and be sure you’ve understood at least what the environment variables do. If that is too hard for you, at least find out what the difference between a binary and a UID might be.
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      10 hours ago

      No arguments, just downvotes… I almost suspect some participants do not even understand what might be wrong with “you are sudo”? I also bet you don’t have the right idea what the difference between effective UIDs might be depending if you’re using “su”, “su -i” , "su - " sudo or “sudo su”. The differences are not exactly subtile and I dare to say admins on unixoids who don’t know them are basically talking heads without an idea what they’re actually talking about.

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        8 hours ago

        I have no idea how any of this is different. Sudo does things as root. Sudo -i logs you in as root where you can do things. So if there is a difference it is v subtle.