Reply to post: Re: Your scheduled bit pedantry whenever shell commands are mentioned

Ubuntu applies security fixes for all versions back to 14.04

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Re: Your scheduled bit pedantry whenever shell commands are mentioned

The usual reason for multiple sudos rather than sudo -s is that it leaves visible traces of what you've done in the system log files, where sudo -s just records that someone has become root but doesn't show what they've done.

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