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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > 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). > Oooh that's handy, I've generally used sudo su. I'll have to remember that (sudo -i) Rob -- 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