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    How to enable 'su' command on Pangolin

    Hi everyone,

    A looooong time ago when I was still running Jaunty, I enabled the 'su' command. Yes, I know all about 'sudo' but I'm old fashioned so I like to 'su' every once in a a while. So now I want to do the same on my Precise Pangolin install. But no matter what I try I can't get it to work.

    In /etc/sudoers I have:
    Code:
    # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
    %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
    and I have created a group 'admin' and added my user account to it. Which, if memory serves, did the trick on Jaunty. But not, apparently, on Pangolin, which may have tighter security settings that need tweaking elsewhere. Or not.

    So. How do I enable 'su' for my everyday user account on Pangolin?

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    Re: How to enable 'su' command on Pangolin

    Create an alias in root's .bashrc?
    Code:
    alias su='sudo'

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    Re: How to enable 'su' command on Pangolin

    The su command should already be installed and working.

    Which user are you trying to su to? If it's the root account then this can't be done in a default Ubuntu installation as the root account is disabled.
    The preferred method of getting a root shell in Ubuntu is by using...
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    sudo -i
    Cheesemill

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    Re: How to enable 'su' command on Pangolin

    Quote Originally Posted by wojox View Post
    Create an alias in root's .bashrc?
    Code:
    alias su='sudo'
    Why would you want to alias one command with another ?

    An alias is not for that purpose IMO.

    su and sudo are different commands

    As cheesemill mentioned above, it is likely the OP cannot su due to them by default "su" without a username therefore defaulting to root which has no password set by default in Ubuntu and so locked.
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    Re: How to enable 'su' command on Pangolin

    Quote Originally Posted by frankvw View Post
    So. How do I enable 'su' for my everyday user account on Pangolin?
    See this article: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
    Last edited by Dave_L; April 4th, 2013 at 01:02 PM.

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    Re: How to enable 'su' command on Pangolin

    Quote Originally Posted by haqking View Post
    Why would you want to alias one command with another ?
    I thought he was looking to shorten the word.

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