Oct 22, 2011 · 81 sudo lets you run commands in your own user account with root privileges. su lets you switch user so that you're actually logged in as root. sudo -s runs a shell with root privileges. sudo -i …

Jul 6, 2011 · The two aren't really inconsistent - the sudo command always changes user, either to root, or to the user you specify with the -u switch. All the -s does is provide a shortcut for starting a shell …

Observed on Debian Wheezy with htop: 'sudo su -' has a child of 'su -', and 'su -' has a child of '-su'. As mentioned above, root user can do 'su -' without entering password, so doing 'su -' inside of a root …

Nov 13, 2013 · sudo su - This time it is a login shell, so /etc/profile, .profile and .bashrc are executed and you will find yourself in root's home directory with root's environment. sudo -i It is nearly the same as …

In that case, use: sudo su - to execute a login shell as root after auhenticating sudo, and that shell will not need sudo to run admin commands. To return to the normal user shell, insert the command exit.

Thanks. sudo -v works for me. The man page says I can run sudo -l as well but that asks for a password. Why is that?

Now, enter sudo. sudo works on a different principle. Instead of requiring users to know the root account login, sudo would be used to allow users to escalate themselves into the root account (or any other …

Aug 19, 2013 · It seems is a good practice to create the wheel group for non-password sudo authentication instead of altering sudo group itself. sudo groupadd wheel then in file /etc/sudoers add …

Dec 16, 2018 · Note: sudo attempts to dereference the hostname, even though it isn't necessarily required, due to optional capabilities in the sudoers file. See sudo command trying to search for …

If you do not want to give the user account full root access, you need to edit the /etc/sudoer file with visudo (it makes sure that you do not have any syntax errors in the file and lose sudo capability …