[Klug-general] This sudo thingy in Kubuntu

[Alan Pope]

2009/4/2 Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>:
> Never tried any of this VM stuff.  As a user of Fedora I have a root
> password and quite like it.  So if I want to do a load of stuff as root
> on my laptop (ubuntu) I use 'sudo bash' which gets me into a shell as
> root after prompting for password - and away I go. :-)
>

sudo -s
or
sudo -i

Is the 'right' way to achieve that.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Cheers,
Al.