Oct 22, 2011 · sudo su Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su as root. sudo su - Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su - as root. So in this case you are …

8 su - switches to the superuser and sets up the environment so that it looks like they logged in directly. su root switches to the user named root and doesn't simulate directly logging in. If the …

Aug 22, 2018 · 8 sudo su - will elevate any user (sudoer) with root privilege. su - anotheruser will switch to user environment of the target user, with target user privileges What does sudo su - …

Feb 7, 2011 · su - logs you in completely as root, whereas su makes it so you are pretending to be root. The most obvious example of this is that ~ is root's home directory if you use su -, but …

su is equivalent to sudo -i and simulates a login into the root account. Your working directory will be /root, and it will read root's .profile etc. The prompt will change from $ to #, indicating you …

Oct 24, 2016 · From su 's man page: For backward compatibility, su defaults to not change the current directory and to only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (plus USER and …

I am having problems with the su command. I know my password and I am typing it correctly, but su indicates Authentication failure. So I checked on the internet and then went into recovery …

While you can create a password for the root account allowing you to log in as root with su, there are some distinct benefits to using sudo. Using sudo Sudo is an alternative to giving people a …

The difference between sudo and su is how they perform authentication: su prompts for the target user's password. sudo checks whether the source user is authorized to run the command (the …

Oct 7, 2013 · Here's why: If you write a password in a command like su <username> -p <password>, it would be stored in plain text in your bash history. This is certainly a huge …