On 1/27/2010 1:48 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
>
>> You can 'sudo su -' to get a root terminal if you want.  That even works
>> on a Mac, which they seem to want to emulate.
>
> sudo -i is even easier.

But that's a special case to remember, where you probably already knew 
what sudo does and what 'su -' does.

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   Les Mikesell
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