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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:20 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> I am starting this thread because I don't understand why people are |
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> using sudo and su together. They are completely separate utilities that |
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> do the same thing. AFAIK, it should be either "sudo -i" or "su -", but |
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> not "sudo su -" which I have seen quite often. "sudo su -" is redundant |
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> because "su -" does the same thing as "sudo -i". |
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> "sudo -s", afaik, gives you a root shell but does not clear |
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> out the environment first. |
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> Am I completely missing something? |
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Some systems are configured with a random root password. After a while |
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you get tired of doing 'sudo <command>' all the time and would like to |
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become root but you can't because you don't know the root password. |
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One way around that is 'sudo su -' which allows to become root using |
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your user password. |
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Denis. |
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