Re: Be alert for the heimdal port's instance of "su"

On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

A bit unrelated to your question, but: I've seen others use "sudo su -" but I haven't understood it. Why not use "sudo -s"? Isn't that equivalent?

In addition to what Landon said, you might also end up with a different shell, sudo -s takes $SHELL whereas sudo su takes what you se[et] via 'chsh' when logged in as root. Regards, Elias