Be alert for the heimdal port's instance of "su"

[Elias Pipping]

On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> A bit unrelated to your question, but: I've
> seen others use "sudo su -" but I haven't
> understood it. Why not use "sudo -s"? Isn't
> that equivalent?

In addition to what Landon said, you might also
end up with a different shell,

   sudo -s

takes $SHELL whereas

   sudo su

takes what you se[et] via 'chsh' when logged in
as root.


Regards,

Elias