On 06/22/2008 08:57 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:37 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
>> > Looks correct. Be sure to run this as root. You can do a:
>> >
>> > sudo su -
>> >
>> > to get a root shell and then do the above.
>>
>> Just a hint:
>> There's no need to have sudo call the program 'su' to get a login
>> shell for root. The following is shorter and simpler:
>>
>> sudo -i
>
> You are correct. I keep forgetting about the -i option. Earlier
> versions of sudo did not have the -i option. Old habits die hard. ;-)

Just

su

will work just fine.



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