Re: Sudo instead of SU

[Thilo Six <T.Six@gmx.de>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote the following on 21.04.2007 02:02:
> 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

sudo -i

bye Thilo
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