Chris Carey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote: >> I prefer: >> >> sudo su - > > I use > > sudo -s sudo -s isn't strong enough magic. You don't get root's environment; you just inherit the one you came from. So /sbin, /usr/sbin, etc, aren't in the path. And neither are any fancy things you put in root's shell environment.