Re: su or sudo su?

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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Tomas Hajek <thajek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I suppose if "sudo su -" asks for roots password ("Defaults targetpw" in sudoers for
> instance) like opensuse seems to do, I might consider that stupid but it probably is
> there for a reason and someone finds it useful.

targetpw requires root's password because there's an assumed "-u root"
in "sudo su -". For sudo always to prompt for root's password, you
have to set rootpw in sudoers.
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