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As it would seem this has been mostly forgotten, "best practice" for elevating privileges on Linux/UNIX(-like) multi.user systems is the combination:
\/bin/sudo \/bin/su -

Path to "sudo" may be different on specific systems of course.
Reasons are many but include that it is never a good idea to share passwords, especially admin-ones, for both the obvious security risk but also for the complexity of changing such passwords once shared widely. Using "sudo" with "su" of course only requires each user knowing their OWN password and allows for easy recalling of specific privileges if needed.
Yes, "sudo" now has the "-i" option, but in accordance with the UNIX principle, it is better to use tools specifically made for each purpose than tools that "can also do that"... and "su" is required to exist on every system by UNIX-standards (while "sudo" isn't, but should).

Package Release: 09/25 opera 56.0.3051.31 Opera: a light-weight graphical web browser opera.com/

I'd really like to see everyone moving on past the 'in'fighting in #linux (more like disruption from the outside), but more prominent #kernel hackers (now Ted) are being targeted and harassed by the troublemakers. We need to defend them.
Un experto en ciberseguridad denuncia que Google inicia sesión en Chrome sin consentimiento de los usuarios… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1044411229106769920

Uber Drivers and Other Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago
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"I AM PERFECTLY HAPPY SAYING, NO. RESPECT SHOULD BE EARNED."

Amen brother torvalds

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Linus Torvalds on his " insults":
respect should be earned.

Linus Torvalds: “I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, a...

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Mi CuCu - La Sonora Dinamita

La Sonora Dinamita is a Colombian musical group that plays cumbia, a Colombian and Panamanian music genre popular throughout Latin America. As one of the fir...

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Digital Dictatorship: China Exerts Control Over Population Through "Social Credit" System https://quitter.im/url/1391116

Just a reminder that tonight and tomorrow night is the time to get in your monthly moonlight bathing.

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