how to make a SU Terminal Shell

Karl Goetz kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net
Sat Jul 29 06:29:21 UTC 2006


brendon wrote:
> hi there one and all, as my user on my system, was the first  user 
> curated so has administrator privileges  i was wondering to do i make 
> the shell open in SU mode? ie so when i open the shell under my user 
> name it opens up as root?
> 
> 
if you must have a root shell use
sudo -i
for a full root environment, or
sudo -s
for your user environment, with root powers.

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