Fedora Users — Re: su not the same as login

thank you for that answer it was very concise and seems to solve the problem

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From: aaron hirsch

To: For users of Fedora Core releases

Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 2:43 PM

Subject: RE: su not the same as login

>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

[aaron hirsch]

To take on the entire environment you need to use the - . i.e. su ? foo will give you foo?s profile/env?su foo will make you foo, but you will still have your profile/env

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