can't su, but can sudo?

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 30 01:11:18 UTC 2009


On 29/08/09 08:47 PM, Madison Kelly wrote:
> sudo su
> passwd
> 
> you should be golden. :)

You can just do "sudo -i" and get an interactive root shell without
needing to enable the root account.
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