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difference between sudo su and su 1
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Annihilannic
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su on its own just does the job of substituting your current user login with a shell of another user. For any non-root user this will require a password to be entered for the destination user.
sudo su means that someone has created a sudo rule allowing a certain user to run a command with escalated privileges. So you might grant a certain person sudo rights to run su to allow them to become root or any other user they chose, possibly without entering a password (depending on the rule). If it does ask for a password, it will be the password of the user granted the sudo right, not the destination user.
Annihilannic.
sudo su means that someone has created a sudo rule allowing a certain user to run a command with escalated privileges. So you might grant a certain person sudo rights to run su to allow them to become root or any other user they chose, possibly without entering a password (depending on the rule). If it does ask for a password, it will be the password of the user granted the sudo right, not the destination user.
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KenCunningham
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with no information as to how much research you've done yourself (none, clearly), doesn't exactly endear you to readers of your thread.
I want to be good, is that not enough?
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