On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:48:06 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > First, running sudo su is redundant if you know the root password, as I > presume you do. (It's your system, you installed it and assigned the > root password.) In fact, the only reason to use sudo at all is if you > don't know the root password, or you're running a distro that doesn't > normally have a root password. Nope, completely myth, and here's why: "sudo su -l" is absolutely the fastest and most efficient way to get a root login shell where the PATH is set correctly to find the programs that root needs to be able to run (at least it is the fastest way if your user is setup to not require a password for sudo :-). _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
