On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 14:22, Ron Stodden wrote: > Got the answer: > > An su to root creates the environment variable $USERNAME=root. The value > of $USER is not changed. Leaving the superuser state (exit or ^D) > removes $USERNAME. > > This is a change in 8.2 which Mandrake users have NOT been responsibly > notified of beforehand. > > What others are there? > >
[user@sQa user]$ su Password: [user@sQa user]# echo $USER root [root@sQa user]# echo $USERNAME root [root@sQa user]# echo $LOGNAME root [root@sQa evil7]# I have no comments, or griefs about any of this, just sending in some form of reproduction. Tashi Delek BTW: Never send out your real username(s) to mailing list, it's a bad idea(tm). -- Bryan Paxton Public PGP key: http://www.deadhorse.net/bpaxton.gpg Trying, the volition devoid of action, this is idleness. Doing, the volition replete in motion, a process. Being that all things are impermanent, this process is constant. If one realizes such, the process is in all actuality, one step. A motion that can not be reversed, but may be halted. Both ways does this sway.
