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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:59:54PM -0000, Ray Smith wrote: > You can also use sudo su which will then aske for you account password. Then > any command you enter after that will be treated as a root command. Very bad > if you forget you are operating as root. There's no sense in running 'sudo su' if you want a root shell. 'su' is a program that prompts for a password and gives you a root shell, like sudo, but it prompts every time. All 'sudo su' does is run su as root, bypassing su's password prompt in favour of sudo's. sudo -s or sudo -i will give you a root shell (-i will simulate a login as root, so you'll get root's bashrc etc. rather than your own, and various environment variables will be set). -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared." -- St. Augustinus -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html