Oct 22, 2011 · 81 sudo lets you run commands in your own user account with root privileges. su lets you switch user so that you're actually logged in as root. sudo -s runs a shell with root privileges. sudo -i …

Jul 6, 2011 · The two aren't really inconsistent - the sudo command always changes user, either to root, or to the user you specify with the -u switch. All the -s does is provide a shortcut for starting a shell …

In that case, use: sudo su - to execute a login shell as root after auhenticating sudo, and that shell will not need sudo to run admin commands. To return to the normal user shell, insert the command exit.

Observed on Debian Wheezy with htop: 'sudo su -' has a child of 'su -', and 'su -' has a child of '-su'. As mentioned above, root user can do 'su -' without entering password, so doing 'su -' inside of a root …

If you do not want to give the user account full root access, you need to edit the /etc/sudoer file with visudo (it makes sure that you do not have any syntax errors in the file and lose sudo capability …

Aug 19, 2013 · It seems is a good practice to create the wheel group for non-password sudo authentication instead of altering sudo group itself. sudo groupadd wheel then in file /etc/sudoers add …

Have a look at the contents, using cat /etc/motd Still seeing the same updates available, after running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade is to be expected. If you then re-run this command you …

Feb 9, 2024 · I forgot my WSL Ubuntu password, needed to run sudo command. After running the folowing command lead@kernel:~$ sudo su I got this Sorry, try again Any alternatives?

Jun 30, 2014 · Now I have come out or log out or disable root access. For that I tried sudo passwd -dl root. Then it shows the message: passwd: password expiry information changed. But I still have root …

$ sudo -i [sudo] password for myuseraccount: # here you type the user's password # A lot of people that have Unix background or experience with other distributions stumble on this issue quite often. The …