It’s a really important switch for doing things like setting up wireguard, which has protected directories, you can’t actually enter the directory for wireguard setup without sudo -i
(I mean technically you probably can with sudo su, too, but this is more elegant and less redundant)
Use sudo -i instead, gives you an interactive shell without running the su binary with sudo, which is unnecessary
Edit: it’s i not I
Thank you, that’s a switch I hadn’t looked at. I’ll admit though, I’m on Mint, I have a nice built-in GUI that works nicely.
It’s a really important switch for doing things like setting up wireguard, which has protected directories, you can’t actually enter the directory for wireguard setup without
sudo -i(I mean technically you probably can with
sudo su, too, but this is more elegant and less redundant)My phones keyboard decided to capitalize, it’s -i
Thanks, we suffered the same fate.