SU & SUDO

[Daniel Pittman]

Dave <dsterken at gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to be able to disable the SUDO command and enable SU but
> I can't find the conf files for it, would someone be so kind as to
> point me in the right direction? 

Enable use of su(1) is reasonable, but Ubuntu may not work as well as
you would hope if you disable sudo(8) -- not least of which because it
is used internally to obtain root access with a number of the GUI
administrative tools.

To enable su(1) to work simply set a password for your root user.  You
can then use that password to log in as root no matter what mechanism,
including su.


Now, the real question here is *why* you want to do this?  Obviously you
have some reason for wanting to replace sudo with su, and if you share
it with us there may turn out to be a better way to address your
problem.

Regards,
        Daniel
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