Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:

> 
> there isn't a single difference between su - and loging in as root (ok one
> the utmp entry, but that has nothing todo with anything major)
>  
Well, MY experience has been that there are some
applications that can ONLY be run as "root." Editing system
files appears to be one of those functions. I may not know
much about theory and all that, but I *do* know that in the
past when I've tried to run system commands as an SU-ed
user, it wouldn't let me. *shrug*

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