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  3. February 2019

Re: Here there be Dragons!

of course you can

$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for jwoehr:
#

On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 11:31 AM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Yes, using Virtual Box. Using an older Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) and yes, it
has sudo, but not su. So you can execute one command at a time as root,
but you can't get into "root mode".



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