Can't su anymore

[Jared Earle]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Dan Shoop <shoop at iwiring.net> wrote:
>
>  On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:51 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>  > On 25-Feb-2008, at 14:08, Don Montalvo wrote:
>  >> "Jared Earle" <jearle at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> Does "sudo su -" work?
>  >>
>  >> I use "sudo -s"
>  >
>  > But that is not the same thing as sudo su -
>
>  Not always, but normally so, yes. If root had some shell different
>  than the invoker's then it could be different.

Apart from $HOME and .bashrc/.env are vastly different, for instance.

As "sudo -s", type "cd && pwd" and see where you are. Now try this
after "sudo su -". Your environments are, of course, completely
different. I personally use "sudo -s" more than "sudo su -" but I do
so precisely because I don't want to have root's environment. I
presume the OP was asking to get su working precisely because he does
want root's env.

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