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Rob Beard wrote: > 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) I always use sudo bash. Maybe that's a bad idea. -- 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