Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> It seems to me to be now operating as it should.
> 
> If I login as Charles and su to root, I did not login as root only
> acquired root privileges as user Charles so entering 'user' should display only 
>Charles.
> whoami delivers root since those are the permissions I am given.

Then after an su why would:

echo $USERNAME

return "root" if Charles is still the user's name??

-- 
Ron. [au]

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