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| From: | Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] sudo vs su | ||
| Date: | Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:29:14 | ||
| Message-Id: | 87635h2jg7.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] sudo vs su by Denis Dupeyron |
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| 1 | Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> writes: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Some systems are configured with a random root password. After a while |
| 4 | > you get tired of doing 'sudo <command>' all the time and would like to |
| 5 | > become root but you can't because you don't know the root password. |
| 6 | > One way around that is 'sudo su -' which allows to become root using |
| 7 | > your user password. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | When I had to do this on a (RHEL) system, I did not think of using 'sudo |
| 10 | su -', I used 'sudo bash'. |