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Benjamin M. A'Lee writes:
> 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).
>
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> "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
>
...why doesn't Ubuntu set up a proper super user account at the install
then?
Apologies if this has been covered but I can't remember reading an
explination so far.....
Cheers, JOn
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