Bob Marčan: >>> BTW, it's "sudo -i" Tim: >> No, it's not. When I said I typed "su -" I meant that I typed "su -". Chris Adams: > Which is what "sudo -i" does, without the superfluous "su -". And you > can use "sudo -s" instead of "sudo su" too. > > I don't know where the idea that you need to run a second super-user > tool from the first super-user tool came from. Dunno why people find this so hard to understand, or why people are erroneously correcting what they *think* I was doing. I was not typing sudo anything, not sudo su anything, just "su -". If I was typing "sudo su <something or other">, I would have said so. When I say I'm doing something, take it as read that *that* is exactly what I'm doing, don't interpret it into something else. For *decades* if you are logged in as yourself, and want to temporarily do something as the root user, *one* technique has been to simply type in "su -" in your command line hit enter, and enter the root password at the prompt. From then on, you are logged in as root. Very simple. You can do a collection of tasks, related or not, simply by doing them. For example: [tim@rocky ~]$ su - Password: Last login: Wed Jun 4 01:29:37 ACST 2025 on pts/7 [root@rocky ~]# ll /etc/httpd/conf.d Yes, there are risks. And there are risks with doing "sudo <command>" as yourself, too. But the results are entirely predictable (which hasn't always been the case with sudo, in the past, at least). And it is less typing, too. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
