On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 16:46 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > The important tip that I didn't get for ages was using typing > # su - > 1. '#' means 'you're logged in as a user' > 2. '$' means 'you're logged in as root' I think you've said that backwards ;] [my FC3 machine] [cwt@jaja ~]$ su - Password: [root@jaja ~]# > 4. If you type > # su - > it will ask you for your root password and behave as if you'd loged in > as root. I don't understand why but it works better than > # su root su - gets root's shell, su keeps the user's. Which means, among other things, your environment variables are still your own user's. I'm sure some else can explain better, but basically su isn't really 'becoming' root. -- Craig Thomas <cjtinhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
