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Re: PATH nfg after su



Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote

>> Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me.  Not only are you wastefully
>> running two programs when you only need one.

> It's useful (essential?) if you want a root shell when there's no root
> password set like on Ubuntu (and optionally on Debian).

No.

"sudo -i" does exactly that: Run a shell as "root" and ask for the
password of the user calling it.

S!

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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