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stozi

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Registered: 2010-03-02

Posts: 149

machinectl shell

So should we be using 'machinectl shell' instead of su/sudo now?

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/systemd … 0418.shtml

from the --help I don't quite get what 'shell [[USER@]NAME [COMMAND...]' means. I tried this:

$ machinectl shell root@myhost pacman -Syu

obviously laughably wrong because it said:

machinectl: invalid option -- 'S' 

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,798

Re: machinectl shell

It isn't a replacement, it's an addition that makes some guarantees to the login environment su doesn't provide (it creates a completely new shell which su doesn't) read the following links for a rationale instead of some sensationalist journalism: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issu … -127917622 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1022 It is mostly relevant if you are using systemd containers from what I gather