su or sudo su?

[Tsvetomir Totev]

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 at azapple.com> 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 -
> >
> ----
> 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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