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Typing sudo su is like typing cat file | cat. If you want a non-login shell as root, just use sudo -s. If you want a login shell, sudo -i. To switch to a non-root user, use sudo -u <user> with -i or -s. There's no need to run two different superuser-elevation programs chained back to back.

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