root user

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 20:13 -0700, Craig White wrote:

> > The best way is to use sudo to become root:
> > 
> > jay at polar:~$ sudo su
> > ----
> recommend that you use 'sudo su -'
> 
> note the dash at the end which obtains root env... can definitely make a
> big difference.

Or on most modern version of sudo just use the -i option.  It does the
same thing.

Please note the "su" command lets you become any user and not just root.
e.g.

sudo -i -u foo

will give you a shell with the authorization of the user "foo".  You can
do the same thing for an individual command with:

sudo -i -u foo  somecommand

The -i insures you get the user's environment e.g. PATH and other
environment variables and behaves just like you logged in as the user
"foo".

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