Re: su or sudo su?

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Hmm, I think

$ sudo -i

and your account password will give you root access on Ubuntu. On Debian sudo is not allowed by default.

$ sudo su -

is stupid.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 10:05 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -. Recently, I discovered I
> could simply type su -.
>
> What's the difference:
>
> su -
> sudo su -
>
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I can't imagine why any UNIX/Linux system would allow a 'sudo su'
command.

su -

is just a whole lot less typing

sudo su -

can be a security nightmare

however on Debian/Ubuntu systems where there is generally no 'superuser'
login allowed, you would have to 'sudo su -' to obtain a continuous
superuser shell.

Craig


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