I want to run amun honeypot on Ubuntu 13.10 and I sometimes have problem with running this honeypot. I just write this command $ sudo ./amun_server.py & but it cant work sometimes. I want to try this command sudo su bash but I don't know what this command can do.
When you type:
sudo <command>
you are running as root user, the requested password is your password. Only your uid is changed and the environment is the same as your user.
When you type:
su
su command without parameter allow user to become superuser. In this case the requested password is about root.
When you type:
sudo su
you are running su as root user, sudo ask your password and su does not. So you can become root without knowing the password.
Caution: It is strongly recommended to not use this command unless you really know very well what you are doing
If you want exec command as another user login shell environment:
sudo su - <user> -c <command>
or
sudo -u <user> -i <command>
Here is useful link
