Mike McCarty wrote:
Ankush Grover wrote:
Hey,
There is no root terminal in Gnome unlike in KDE where there is a
root terminal.You will find
terminal under "System Tools".If you are logged as normal user give
"su -" at the terminal to become super user(root).
Regards
Ankush
I have a general *NIX admin question. Why does one want to use
su -
as opposed to just su? I think I understand the difference in regards
to "su -" actually changes you to root, as if logged in that way, as
opposed to simply granting root privilege. But why do that? If I do
that, then I lose my path settings, and can't run my normal editor, which
is in ~/bin and so on. I just use "su".
What am I missing?
You're missing getting /sbin and /usr/sbin on your PATH, which you
probably want for what you're about to do as root. If you already have
those directories on your regular user's PATH (which is not the
default), "su -" probably doesn't help you much. But it does for most
people.
Paul.
