Ubuntu Root Passwork Gotcha?

[John Nilsson]

On tor, 2005-07-28 at 07:45 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> That is a *very bad* idea. To get a proper root console you should use
> sudo -i
> 
> sudo does not reset a number of important environment variables, unless
> the -i flag is used.

Is `sudo -i` the same as running `sudo su -`? 

/John