su will let you run a shell with substitute user without
making the shell a login shell.
su - will let you run a shell with substitute user and make the shell
a login shell. If you put no username, it
assumes as root (same as su)
sudo will let you run certain or all commands as if you are
root, depending on the settings on visudo
file.
On 8/29/06, Gayal < gayal rupasinghe gmail com> wrote:
>
Wuts the different between su, su - root and sudo ?
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