On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:40:26PM -0700, MHR wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Semih Gokalp <semihgokalp at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > sudo su - > > What are you expecting this command to do? If you want to 'sudo' a > command, do that. If you want to 'su,' do that. But don't mix the > two together. I'm not the OP, but "sudo su -" is a very useful command; it gives the user full root access to a root shell with root's standard profile, but doesn't require them to know the root password. It's not good _security_ practice (not in a long way) but it can be a useful command. -- rgds Stephen