On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 15:11 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > 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.
Thanks. Debian has su installed as part of a required package so I never bothered installing sudo, it just seemed to be an Ubuntu thing. -- Tixy
