Terminal Activity does not permit $ sudo -i

[Jeffrey Elkner]

My password fails every time I try $ sudo -i from the terminal activity. There is not warning that this operation is not permitted, it just gives an authentication error even though the password was correctly entered.

[Thomas C Gilliard (satellit-)]

try "sudo su"

sudo is not allowed in ubuntu but this command seems to work fine....

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

This works for me. What version of Terminal did you install? Perhaps you're using one not from the Ubuntu repositories?

[Jeffrey Elkner (jelkner)]

After further testing, I had this problem on only one machine, and it disappeared after updating packages. So my apologies on filing this bug prematurely. It doesn't really exist.