[ILUG] Bemused by Ubuntu install

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:56:27 +0000
  | From: Paul O'Malley <ompaul at eircom.net>
  | 
  | Brian Foster wrote:
  | >  | From: des <des at frommars.org>
  | >  |[ ... ]
  | >  | "sudo su -" will probably do what you want for now.
  | > `sudo -s' is perhaps more sane?
  |[ ... ]
  | sudo -s is more sane then sudo su -, but essentially it is the
  | same thing.  Even more sane is sudo -i [ ... ]

 ah yes, that was the option I very vaguely recalled.
 `sudo -i' does not exist on the system I am currently
 using (SUSE 9.1, Sudo version 1.6.7p5) and I was sure
 the Ubantu system (not accessible at the moment) had
 a better suggestion.

cheers!
	-blf-
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