On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:30:11PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 08:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote > [...] > > Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me. Not only are you wastefully > > running two programs when you only need one. > [...] > > It's useful (essential?) if you want a root shell when there's no root > password set like on Ubuntu (and optionally on Debian).
"sudo -s" and "sudo -i". Hell, even "sudo bash" would be better. su does a ridiculous amount of extra crap.
