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Paul Hirst wrote:
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:49 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:If you really can't modify the file, then stop mucking about with sudo and do a real su; su - then you're really root and anything sudo might do won't get in the way. If you don't have su, then sudo /bin/bash will work.My preferred incantation under Ubuntu is sudo su - To get a proper root environment. Anyone have other, better incantations?
How about sudo -i or sudo -s depending on whether you want root's environment or not? James -- 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