I use sudo su because running su with no options also gets you an interactive session without having to type anything but letters and a space
Both of these are for when you want a session as root which is nearly never necessary, but sometimes it’s more convenient that a set of commands preceded by sudo
I figured out that it just drops you into a root ahell, which is a bad thing.
You should try to never login as root. It’s just bad security hygiene.
I run sudo apt update, put in my password, thenonce my repos are updated, I run sudo apt upgrade. Password only has to be input once, unless I get busy and forget to do the upgrade command, in which case I haven’t left a root shell unattended for however long it took me to realize that I left the shell open.
That way if someone else comes along and tries to do stuff, they only have the limited privilege level that my user does.
Why use the - i?
I just sudo [command].
-i asks for an interactive session
I use
sudo subecause running su with no options also gets you an interactive session without having to type anything but letters and a spaceBoth of these are for when you want a session as root which is nearly never necessary, but sometimes it’s more convenient that a set of commands preceded by
sudoI figured out that it just drops you into a root ahell, which is a bad thing.
You should try to never login as root. It’s just bad security hygiene.
I run sudo apt update, put in my password, thenonce my repos are updated, I run sudo apt upgrade. Password only has to be input once, unless I get busy and forget to do the upgrade command, in which case I haven’t left a root shell unattended for however long it took me to realize that I left the shell open.
That way if someone else comes along and tries to do stuff, they only have the limited privilege level that my user does.