Is Sudo Almost Useless?

Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by jabirali on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:25PM (#23471078)

Or make it a shell function that operates on $@ in the same way, so you can put it in your bashrc with your aliases.

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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by dheera on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:21PM (#23471607)

I tried this but didn't work:

    ~ :) gudo () { su -c "$@"; }
    ~ :) gudo echo foo bar
    su: user foo does not exist

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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by jabirali on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:44AM (#23474600)

I searched it up, and apparently "$@" and expands to "foo" "bar" while "$*" expands to "foo bar", and the latter is what we want. From a quick test on my machine, that replacement in in your function definition seems to fix it :).

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