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What's the difference between the commands "su -s" and "sudo -s"?

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Mar 15, 202632366 views
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What is the difference between the two super user commands, and ? They both give a shell with access to the superuser account.

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su -s

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In practice, they will both make you the superuser. However, they do slightly different things, in slightly different ways. First, switches you to a login shell, whereas does not. In practice, this often means that your environment variables will no…

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