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You have access to the vim text editor via sudo, but shell escapes are blocked. How do you escalate privileges to get an unfettered root shell without sudo?

Scott Leggett :fedi: :golang:

@hal_pomeranz

> shell escapes are blocked

what does this mean?

@hal_pomeranz @smlx It means you can do the obvious thing of !sh or whatever, means you need to mostly use vi as intended rather than as a shell