su or sudo su?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Oct 18 16:26:58 UTC 2010


On 10/18/2010 12:05 PM, 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 -

The answer depends on how you configure your sudo.  The difference could
be the lack of prompting for the root password for certain users....  If
you haven't configured sudo at all, there probably is no difference.

> ?

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