Re: su not the same as login

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• From: Walter Francis <wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Login properly?  su - or su -l

SYNOPSIS
       su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]

DESCRIPTION
       Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.

       -, -l, --login
              make the shell a login shell

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