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 …

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 …

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 …

Aug 22, 2018 · 8 sudo su - will elevate any user (sudoer) with root privilege. su - anotheruser will switch to user environment of the target user, with target user privileges What does sudo su - …

The difference between sudo su - and su - is this: With sudo su - you will be asked to authenticate with your user password (assuming you have sudo privileges).

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 …

Apr 27, 2012 · In that case, use: sudo su - to execute a login shell as root after auhenticating sudo, and that shell will not need sudo to run admin commands. To return to the normal user …

I was wondering how to run a command as another user from a script. I have the script's owner set as root. I also have the following command being run within the script to run the command …

11 If you still want to use su after reading the warnings in the question, there is no need to set a root password. Just do sudo su and you're on your way with your regular password.

Apr 21, 2020 · Somewhat like in How to suppress su authentication failure warning?, but it actually does not run the command at all. # su limited su: Authentication failure # su -s …