Ubuntu Desktop Terminal – Su

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   Lonnie Olson October 13, 2008 — 12:22 pm

   Actually there is a simpler, and more proper method for this task.

   sudo -s

   That gives you a new shell as root. No need to fork yet another process (su). su is unnecessary on Ubuntu, and could probably be deprecated IMHO.

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   Justin Carmony October 13, 2008 — 3:47 pm

   Thanks Lonnie, I’ll have to remember that!

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