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How is this different from the following? sudo su -
unixmonkey73 · 505 weeks and 4 days ago
@mjacob No difference whatsoever. @unixmonkey2868 Learn to use the search feature. This has been posted before. Further, this assumes a number of things: first, that sudo is installed, second, that I'm listed in the sudoers file, and third, that I have access to become root through sudo.
atoponce · 505 weeks and 3 days ago

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Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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