Re: su not the same as login

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works like magic thanks

----- Original Message ----- From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: su not the same as login


On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:15, Steven J Lamb wrote:
I know this is most likely a newbie question, however, I have noticed
that the env that I have after su is not the same as if I have logged
in as root. how would I fix that


Use a - (dash) after the su command:

su -

This will use roots environment.

Same applies if you su to another user:

su - steven



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