Tixy <[email protected]> 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.
