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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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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

aliasadm

aliasadm(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      aliasadm(1M)

NAME

       aliasadm - manipulate the NIS+ aliases map

SYNOPSIS

       aliasadm -a alias expansion [options comments] optional flags

       aliasadm -c alias expansion [ options comments] [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -d alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -e alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -l alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -m alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm [-I] [-D domainname] [-f filename] [-M mapname]

DESCRIPTION

       aliasadm makes changes to the alias map.

       The alias map is an NIS+ table object with four columns:

       alias	       The name of the alias as a null terminated string.

       expansion       The value of the alias as it would appear in a sendmail /etc/aliases file.

       options	       A  list	of options applicable to this alias.  The only option currently supported is  CANON. With this option, if the user
		       has requested an inverse alias lookup, and there is more than one alias with this expansion, this alias	is  given  prefer-
		       ence.

       comments        An  arbitrary  string  containing comments about this alias. The sendmail(1M) command reads this map in addition to the NIS
		       aliases map and the local  /etc/aliases database.

OPTIONS

       -a	       Add an alias.

       -c	       Change an alias.

       -d	       Delete an alias.

       -e	       Edit the alias map.

       -I	       Initialize the NIS+ aliases database.

       -l	       List the alias map.

       -m	       Print or match an alias.

       -D domainname   Edit the map in domain  domainname instead of the current domain.

       -f filename     When editing or listing the database, use filename instead of invoking the editor.

       -M mapname      Edit mapname instead of mail_aliases.

FILES

       /etc/aliases    mail aliases for the local host in ASCII format

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnisu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from  NIS+  to  LDAP  are
       available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.10							    12 Dec 2001 						      aliasadm(1M)
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