Why can't I use 'sudo su' within a shell script? How to make a shell script run with sudo automatically

Question

I cannot figure out what\'s wrong with this. When I run it in terminal and enter password, nothing happens, but if I run every command separately in terminal, it works. Than

Answer 1

sudo su is not a command run within a shell -- it starts a new shell.

That new shell is no longer running your script, and the old shell that is running the script waits for the new one to exit before it continues.