sudo su -

[W Scott Lockwood III]

On Feb 13, 2017 06:07, "thufir" <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:

To switch to root, this is reasonable?

thufir at doge:~$
thufir at doge:~$ sudo su -
root at doge:~#
root at doge:~# pwd
/root
root at doge:~#




thanks,

Thufir



Sudo by itself makes one less syscall, and gives you this functionality
anyway. Use:

sudo -i # root shell, root's environment
sudo -s # root shell, invoking users environment
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