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Re: What does the minus sign - do?... in the command sudo su -
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: What does the minus sign - do?... in the command sudo su - |
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Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:19:32 AM UTC+2, Don Saklad wrote:
> What does the minus sign - do?... in the command
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> sudo su -
May I propose to use "sudo -i" instead? It starts a login shell.
"sudo su -" is similar: sudo starts su which starts a login shell. I think it
makes more sense to have sudo start a login shell, than to have sudo start su
which starts a login shell...