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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Sudo to root, but keep my own aliases? Post 303031004 by paqman on Wednesday 20th of February 2019 10:44:59 AM
Old 02-20-2019
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Originally Posted by bakunin
Well, challenge him then: if he is not able to find a solution for the problem of separating his environment from the system environment and still get his environment for his own sessions then he is not gods own gift but simply less accomplished to put it in gentle terms. The ancient greeks (sometimes it pays to have endured four years of ancient greek and 6 years of latin in school) had a word for "layman", "private citizen" (as opposed to "office holder") or, generally, "unskilled [one]". You may want to look it up eventually. ;-))

bakunin
Ha, well I actually just told him I was going to change it back, and he just shrugged and let it go. Which is funny because when I talked to him about it the other day he was pretty adamant about leaving it. Anyway, I really didn't want to jump through a bunch of hoops to accomplish it, so it works out that he just let it go.

The funny thing is, he's really not unskilled, he's pretty good at his job, problem is he knows it, and is very condescending and just very short with everyone. Thanks for the suggestions everyone, wish I could say I used them to come up with a cool solution, when really I just needed to deal with the human aspect. :-)
 

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polygraph-aka

POLYGRAPH-AKA(1)						   User Commands						  POLYGRAPH-AKA(1)

NAME

       polygraph-aka - IP aliases manipulation tool

SYNOPSIS

       aka [--option ...] [interface_name] [alias] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Aka is used to setup large number of aliases during Polygraph experiments with many robots and servers.

       The aliases option specifies what alias or aliases you want to have on the given interface. Aka recognizes IP addresses in PGL address for-
       mat, including dotted IP range. Aka will try to guess the subnet or you can use an explicit subnet specification.

       The number of aliases you can set depends on your OS. Moreover, some OSes may support large number of aliases (more than 1000) but  with  a
       significant performance penalty.

       Note that you can just put alias specs after all other options and the interface name (see aka's usage line).

       Aka  will  delete all old aliases before setting new ones. If you do not specify the new aliases, the old ones will still be deleted (handy
       for cleaning up after yourself).

OPTIONS

       --help list of options

       --version
	      package version info

       --if <str>
	      interface name

       --aliases <str>
	      ip(s) or ip range(s) to set as aliases

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2006 The Measurement Factory, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       polygraph(7) - general information and a list of programs

       http://www.web-polygraph.org/ - project web site

polygraph-aka - Web Polygraph					   February 2010						  POLYGRAPH-AKA(1)
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