ubuntu 12.04 sound problem

[Bob Jonkman]

On 13-07-18 11:39 AM, Neil Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:25:30AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Zbigniew Koziol
>> <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> May be I am somewhat ignorant but.. root on Ubunto? How am I supposed
>>> to? Of
>>> course, once in the past I created simply root account.
>>
>> On Ubuntu boxes `sudo su` should get you a root shell.
> 
> sudo su -
> The trailing hyphen ensure a proper root shell.

If we're enumerating ways to get root access in Ubuntu...

sudo -i

will get you root permissions in the root shell without loading su (and
saves two keystrokes too!)


--Bob.


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