Am Tuesday 03 March 2009 13:58:59 schrieb Marco Bosisio:
> I customized the profile.local and it launch a script_xxx at login. When
> use 'su - ' I would like that the new user does not execute the
> script_xxx again.
Ah, ok.
The thing is, profile is for login shells. And with "-" you _explicitely ask_
su to open a login shell. If you dont want that, run su without the "-".
From man su:
DESCRIPTION
Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.
-, -l, --login
make the shell a login shell
Christian
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