[ubuntu-uk] sudo

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote:
> > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like
> > with:-
> >
> > sudo -s
> 
> Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use
> 
> sudo -i
> 
> so you don't litter your homedir with root's environment nor vice versa.

And on machines with older sudo (I've got some older RHEL servers), I use:

sudo su -

Which does the same.

Regards,
Tyler

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