This is just a quick reference for myself. When I want to “su to root” in Ubuntu’s terminal I need to do the follow: sudo su [enter password] No related posts.
Actually there is a simpler, and more proper method for this task.
sudo -s
That gives you a new shell as root. No need to fork yet another process (su). su is unnecessary on Ubuntu, and could probably be deprecated IMHO.
Thanks Lonnie, I’ll have to remember that!