Re: Sudo instead of SU

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:

> How can I replace SU with Sudo (like Ubuntu), in Gnome and other
> applications?
> 

I will mention this since sooner or later (I think) you will hit this.

su - gives you a root shell so you can execute multiple commands (one after
another) as being root. sudo is usually used to run a single command as
root (ex :- sudo apt-get update). If instead, you want to use sudo to gain
access to a root shell, you can use

sudo -s
sudo /bin/bash

my random 2 cents
raju

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