-=> mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 ml>  On 2017 Jan 28 23:43:02, you wrote to me:

 ml>> BM> It was do to the 'sudo' before the ./sbbsecho from the testing I
 ml>> did.

 ml>> yes but why? why did "sudo" do that?? that's the part to be learned
 ml>> and understood ;)

 BM> As I understand it... sudo allows anyone to become a superuser and
 BM> being I was running under 'pi', it would not allow the variable to be
 BM> set properly. Being /etc/profile already has it set for all users...
 BM> that was creating an issue.  That's the way I see it... could be
 BM> wrong... yes?? no???

 ml> i'm trying to gently push you to the sudo docs where it is explained ;)

I understand... I'm starting to get the hang of it.... slowly... but I'm
dealing with it.  I've put together other bash files since then and they're all
working just fine. 


 ml>  -E, --preserve-env
 ml> Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their
 ml> existing environment variables.  The security policy may return an
 ml> error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment.

 ml>  -i, --login
 ml> Run the shell specified by the target user's password database entry as
 ml> a login shell.  This means that login-specific resource files such as
 ml> .profile or .login will be read by the shell.  If a command is
 ml> specified, it is passed to the shell for execution via the shell's -c
 ml> option.  If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed.
 ml> sudo attempts to change to that user's home directory before running
 ml> the shell.  The command is run with an environment similar to the one a
 ml> user would receive at log in.  The Command Environment section in the
 ml> sudoers(5) manual documents how the -i option affects the environment
 ml> in which a command is run when the sudoers policy is in use.

I ahve some linux books on order that should be here in a couple of days.  Will
give me some material to read before I crash at night.. :)

 ml> plus i posted some links the other day explaining the environment thing
 ml> with sudo...

I saw and appreciate..


 ml> but the main point is that you found out that you didn't even need to
 ml> execute sudo to start with... not sure what made you think that you
 ml> needed to do that but you learned something from it ;)

Yup... and for now, being I'm using ONLY sbbsecho as a hub, I don't even have
to use sudo for SBBS as I'm not running the bbs for the lower ports.... :)  

I plan on getting hpt and htick running on it one day but that is in the future
when I get more familiar.... :)  Baby steps... 


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