On November 14, dman13 at gmail.com said: > An alternative is to just run 'sudo su' (or 'sudo su -') without > setting a password for root. Or even more simply, 'sudo -s'. from man sudo(8): -s The -s (shell) option runs the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is set or the shell as specified in passwd(5). hth, --dkg