On November 14, dman13 at gmail.com said:
> An alternative is to just run 'sudo su' (or 'sudo su -') without
> setting a password for root.
Or even more simply, 'sudo -s'.
from man sudo(8):
-s The -s (shell) option runs the shell specified by the SHELL
environment variable if it is set or the shell as specified in
passwd(5).
hth,
--dkg