Oct 22, 2011 · sudo su Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su as root. sudo su - Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su - as root. So in this case you are …

Aug 22, 2018 · 8 sudo su - will elevate any user (sudoer) with root privilege. su - anotheruser will switch to user environment of the target user, with target user privileges What does sudo su - …

8 su - switches to the superuser and sets up the environment so that it looks like they logged in directly. su root switches to the user named root and doesn't simulate directly logging in. If the …

Jul 2, 2015 · 12 When you run sudo su, any files you create will be owned by root, but it is not possible by default to directly log in as root with ssh or scp. It is also not possible to use sudo …

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Oct 24, 2016 · From su 's man page: For backward compatibility, su defaults to not change the current directory and to only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (plus USER and …

Jan 20, 2013 · In my new Gentoo installation, su doesn't work as my non-root user: After entering the correct password I get the message "su: Permission denied". What could be causing this? …

Oct 7, 2013 · Here's why: If you write a password in a command like su <username> -p <password>, it would be stored in plain text in your bash history. This is certainly a huge …

While you can create a password for the root account allowing you to log in as root with su, there are some distinct benefits to using sudo. Using sudo Sudo is an alternative to giving people a …

su is equivalent to sudo -i and simulates a login into the root account. Your working directory will be /root, and it will read root's .profile etc. The prompt will change from $ to #, indicating you …