On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 06:49:52PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > 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 > sudo su - has one advantage: it gives you root's path and root's home directory - so you end up in /home/root or wherever root's home is set to. Otherwise, you end up, potentially, in the calling user's home directory.
Just my 0.02c Andy
