On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:27:49 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2002 23:56 pm, Net Llama wrote: > > > Exactly. You're really only HALF-root if you just do an 'su' or an > > > 'su > > > root'. You need to use 'su - root' in order to attain all of root's > > > profile, priveledges, and permissions... > > > > Funny, i've never had any such problems becoming root with a simple 'su'. > > Same here... It varies by distro. On gentoo, all I had to do was 'su'. On elx, I had to do 'su -'. I've never had to do 'su - root'. On FreeBSD, 'su -' is required. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - FreeBSD 4.4 + xfce + sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
