Re: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems

[Tom Badran]

> superuser aka root
> "su" for superuser
>
> with su you don't become an other user. You mainly change uid and gid.
> Almost nothing else

but "su <username>" changes you to any user on the sytem, hence the command 
is abbreviated switch user, and not super user
-- 
Tom "Tomahawk" Badran
Department of Computing, Imperial College