On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:31, Preston Crawford wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:21, Mike Evans wrote: > > Ok, that makes sense, but (and I could be wrong) doesn't that happen > > automatically with other distributions (I just came from SuSE 9)? > > You are no incorrect. SuSE (and many other distributions) treat su root > and su - the same. I think Fedora's behavior is correct, though, when > you think about it. It forces the user to use su - which is safer. Oops, I meant to say "You are NOT incorrect." Preston