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  1. What are the differences between "su", "sudo -s", "sudo -i", "sudo …

    Oct 22, 2011 · sudo su Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su as root. sudo su - Asks your password, becomes root momentarily to run su - as root. So in this case you are …

  2. What is the difference between 'su -' and 'su root'? [duplicate]

    8 su - switches to the superuser and sets up the environment so that it looks like they logged in directly. su root switches to the user named root and doesn't simulate directly logging in. If the …

  3. Why do we use su - and not just su? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    Feb 7, 2011 · The main difference is : su - username sets up the shell environment as if it were a clean login as the specified user, it access and use specified users environment variables, su …

  4. su - user Vs sudo su - user - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    Aug 22, 2018 · Secondly: sudo -i and su - do the same thing (su - is equivalent to su --login), using different authorization mechanism: su verifies the password for the root account, while …

  5. su vs sudo -s vs sudo -i vs sudo bash - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    su is equivalent to sudo -i and simulates a login into the root account. Your working directory will be /root, and it will read root's .profile etc. The prompt will change from $ to #, indicating you …

  6. What is the difference between 'su -' , 'sudo bash' and 'sudo sh'?

    su -: This will change your user identifier and inherit the environment variables as if you had logged in with that user. Normally you would use the format su - <userid> to login as the user . …

  7. What's the difference between `su -` and `su --login`? - linux

    Oct 24, 2016 · From su 's man page: For backward compatibility, su defaults to not change the current directory and to only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (plus USER and …

  8. Is there a single line command to do `su`? - Ask Ubuntu

    Oct 7, 2013 · Here's why: If you write a password in a command like su <username> -p <password>, it would be stored in plain text in your bash history. This is certainly a huge …

  9. What is the difference between 'sudo' and 'su -c'

    The difference between sudo and su is how they perform authentication: su prompts for the target user's password. sudo checks whether the source user is authorized to run the command (the …

  10. What's the difference between sudo su - and sudo su

    28 When you provide a double-hyphen the experience you will have is identical to if you had just executed sudo su without any hyphen. Passing a single hyphen is identical to passing -l or - …