It certainly wouldn't be "sudo su" unless you're trying to log in as another non-root user. You issue su with no arguments to become root, or you issue it with a username (su someuser) to become that user. Actually, I'm not sure if su comes with Debian by default - I'm pretty sure it's not supported in Ubuntu. tw wrote: > Ubuntu is a bastardized fork of Debian if I remember correctly. > Wouldn't it be sudo su - as well? > > > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:15 -0500, Joseph Smith wrote: > >> If the newest versio nof debian is anything like ubuntu/kubuntu then >> you use sudo to run commands as superuser. >> >> >> you can also do: sudo su (gives you a shell running as root) if you >> are an admin user. >> >> >> On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Jim Worrest wrote: >> >> >>> I seem to have noticed that there is a new way to access partitions, >>> with Debian based Linuxes anyway. Referring to a file etc. Is there >>> an easy >>> way to get something that looks like the old way, and the average >>> user can >>> access them. By the way, I also notice that Debian doesn't like to >>> have a >>> user named "root" which may be one of the easier ways of doing >>> things, Any >>> way of having a "root" user? >>> >>> ---- >>> Husker Linux Users Group mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE >>> >>> >>> >> ---- >> Husker Linux Users Group mailing list >> To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE >> >> >> > > > ---- > Husker Linux Users Group mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE > > > ---- Husker Linux Users Group mailing list To unsubscribe, send a message to huskerlug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE