Forgotten command.

[tokyoi at mac.com]

On 24 Sep 2006, at 14:29, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 22:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 12:13 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>> You wouldn't believe I forgot the command to move from 'user' ->  
>>> 'root'
>>> in bash....
>>> Thanks for any help
>>>
>>>   david
>>  su ?  or sudo?
>> Ric
>
> su -
> is really the best command.

Depends on how long you want to be on your machine with full root  
privileges (su - ; security issue) and which commands you need --  
sudo is fine for a lot of tasks but of course depends on the  
configuration of sudoers.

Best wishes,

Ian Astley