On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, chuck gelm net wrote:

> I am not familiar with 'su -'.  :-|

>From the manpage of "su":

If the first argument to su is a dash (-), the environment will be 
changed to what would be expected if the user actually logged in
as the specified user. Otherwise, the environment is passed along,
with the exception of $PATH, which  is controlled  by PATH and SUPATH in
/etc/default/su. Additionally, the user's project ID is set if the dash
argument is present. See settaskid(2).


In most cases it's better to use the little dash... :)


grtz

--
Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux                      jos(@)lemmerling(.nl)


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