How is that in any way better than "sudo -i" (which I already suggested, 
and which avoids a needless extra command invocation)?

Gilbert

On 2021-04-07 9:28 a.m., Teh, Kenneth M. wrote:
> If you need to run a lot of commands as root, the easiest sudo method is 
> simply 'sudo su -' which makes you into root.  The trailing '-' does a 
> login which replaces your environment with root's.
> 
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> On 2021-04-07 2:11 a.m., Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> 
>>>  The major issue I find is that everything at the system level is sudo 
>>> -- however, for Ubuntu, I have found the fixes so that I can become 
>>> root and do what I need both from a text interface and a GUI interface.
>> 
>> I find sudo on Ubuntu much easier to use than sudo on SL6.
>> By default on Ubuntu you can run succeccive sudo commands without
>> reentering the password each time.
>> I never figured out how to do that with SL.
> 
> That doesn't sound like default behaviour for sudo on SL6.  I've been
> using it for years, and haven't had the password issue you mention.
> 
> Since sudo is pretty old, stable code, there likely aren't any
> differences between its implementation in RHEL/SL vs Debian/Ubuntu,
> other than the content of the /etc/sudoers file.  I'd check that against
> the distro's clean, initial configuration, and see what's broken.
> 
>> When I need to use pipes or redirect stdin and stdout as root,
>> a simple "sudo bash" first solves those issues.
> 
> You can use "sudo -i" to accomplish the same thing, but with perhaps
> more "sane" initial setup, since it simulates a login.
> 
> Gilbert