"It's out love for Ubuntu that I'm being so harsh in this review. Look where we're at -- 7.04, a number of significant releases since 4.10 Warty three years ago -- and it still can't manage the display properly. I had great expectations for 7.04, and unfortunately they're not all met. If you're a fanboy, don't read on, because I'll shatter your fragile world." More at APCMag.
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Member since:2005-11-13
It's better to use "sudo -i" for that.
When you use "sudo su" you are creating a new bash job as root, launching su inside it, and then launching a new bash as root. You have three (3) processes and you only have a shell where you must launch the program you whant.
When you use "sudo -i" you are creating a new bash job as root that will act like a logging one (reading all root preferences including .bashrc, .bash_profile and so on). Only one child process and you are set to work.
Added benefit: you doesn't need to have "su" installed, so one less program to upgrade an take care of bugs, sudo allows a finer grained permission, allowing to grant access only to some programs to user A while full access to user B and NO access to user C without telling them the root password because each one uses his/her own password while you need root's password to use su (so you have full access to break things)
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2006-04-07
The root account is enabled, you just lack the password. This really is a difference. Anyway, if you prefer to act as root you just need to type "sudo su" and there you are. I admit, it takes 3 more characters than "su -"