Thanks for the explanation of the use of - in the su command.
I checked the man pages for su, (why did you put su(1)), and found the
following
comment about a login shell,
-, -l, --login
make the shell a login shell
which did not lead me to understand that a user's login script would have
been run. (Doesn't seem to make
any difference in this case anyway).
Regards
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry T. Williams" <gtwilliams@xxxxxxxxx>
Check the manual page for su(1).
If you had entered `su - amandabackup', that user's login scripts
would have been run.
In general, using su without its `-' parameter is a bad idea[*]
especially when switching to the root login.
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[*] Unless, of course, you know why you want to do that.
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