Hubert Kleinmanns wrote:
Mario,

I fear, I misunderstood your question (or you misunderstood my answer ;-) )

Marco didn't explain what problem he's trying to solve, so we all have
to guess.


"echo $SHLVL" returns always "1" after a "su - ...", but another value after a "su 
..." (without th dash). I thought, this was what you would like to see.

There are several mechanism, to distinguish between the primary login shell and a 
"su ..." shell:

I for one don't see why that might be useful:-)





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John

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