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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:04:02PM +0000, Simon Williams wrote: > 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. Probably not a bad idea, but unnecessary unless you specifically want bash and you wouldn't get bash otherwise, which seems unlikely (I use sudo -s, so I get my own shell+dotfiles rather than root's; sudo -i would give you root's, which on GNU/Linux is probably bash anyway) -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "For every man there is a purpose which he sets up for his life and which he pursues. Let yours be the doing of all good deeds." -- The Qu'ran, Surah 2 -- 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