[gentoo-dev] sudo vs su

[William Hubbs]

All,

I am starting this thread because I don't understand why people are
using sudo and su together.  They are completely separate utilities that
do the same thing.  AFAIK, it should be either "sudo -i" or "su -", but
not "sudo su -" which I have seen quite often.  "sudo su -" is redundant
because "su -" does the same thing as "sudo -i".

"sudo -s", afaik, gives you a root shell but does not clear
out the environment first.

Am I completely missing something?

William