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>sudo su -

It's high time for this thing to die. sudo supports this natively since forever:

  $ sudo -i

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Curious, whats the difference and why is sudo -i better? I was unaware of sudo -i (I might as well be a noob though), so I had a quick search to find out more and found this [0]

One question, if I may, could there be any situation (that you can think of, off the top of your head) where using sudo -i would be worse then "sudo su -"

[0] - https://www.maketecheasier.com/differences-between-su-sudo-s...

'sudo su -' uses root to run 'su -' to open a root login shell.

'sudo -i' opens a root login shell.

su is old fashioned but it works fine. I don't even have sudo installed on my PC.

Huh. TIL.

I usually just do `sudo zsh` :-)

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