SU password

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Fri Sep 5 17:11:01 UTC 2008


2008/9/5 Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>:

> The only
> way you can become root (if you really want to do that - it's not
> normally required) is by doing `sudo su -`

Or 'sudo -i' (which leaves some environment variables allowing to run
X commands), or 'sudo -s' (which leaves more of environment of the
user, in particular $HOME).

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Marcin Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/




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