On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:24:56PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I now run a script, $USER delivers "ron", not the "root" which > > previous Mandrakes delivered. > > > > So just exactly what is going on, please?
8.1 didn't have the behaviour you say it did: [breser@stream breser]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 [breser@stream breser]$ su Password: [root@stream breser]# echo $USER breser [root@stream breser]# users breser breser 8.0's users behaves the same as 8.2's but $USER does change: [breser@skull breser]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 [breser@skull breser]$ su Password: [root@skull breser]# echo $USER root [root@skull breser]# users breser -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
