On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:01:39AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> paths do not change. If you do a su - (==su --login), then the new shell
> reads the named users .*profile file, ie, it has the same effect as
> logging in from a console. For a normal su it does not have the same
> effect as a login, because not all environment variables are changed.
>
Even the su - also is not "identical" to the regular login shell. Some
programs which insist that you have console ownership would refuse to
run. (Try executing startx from a su'd shell)
Kala
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