[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

Matt Mossholder matt at mossholder.com
Thu Jul 9 12:59:11 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Glenn Harris
<gharris+list+mythtv at eklo.com<gharris%2Blist%2Bmythtv at eklo.com>
> wrote:

> If you're going to be doing a lot of things as 'root', you can just use:
>
> sudo su -
>
> That will prompt you for your normal sudo password, and give you a
> full root shell.  Still no password for root, and all your commands
> still get logged.
> Everyone is happy.
>
> Be careful still applies.
>
> Good luck!
> --Glenn


Ack! No!  :)

This is the correct method to get a root shell using sudo:

sudo -i

     --Matt
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