su or sudo su?

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon Oct 18 16:25:08 UTC 2010


James Mckenzie wrote:
> Petrus de Calguarium <pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>When I need root access, I used to use sudo su -.
>
> This is plain wrong.  The command should be sudo <command>.

And su - is a command. ;)

There's really nothing wrong with that command from a technical
standpoint.

Whether someone should have access to su via sudo is another matter,
something for the admin to configure.

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