Re: OT: Pondering sudo

Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been trying to find out what the difference is between the
following three

% sudo su -

Use your password to authenticate to sudo, then use su to change to the
root user with root's environment as if it were a login session

% sudo -i

Use your password to authenticate to sudo, then change to the root user
with root's environment as if it were a login session

% sudo -s

Use your password to authenticate to sudo, then fire up a shell. Do not
instantiate root's environment. Do not start a new login session

Chris


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