A slightly expanded explanation: su only changes permissions of the current process
su - does a full login. Jon On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mark Haney wrote: > Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > Remember that "su -" will alter your environment to include /sbin and > > /usr/sbin, while "su" will not. > > > > Jon > > > > I did not know that. In all the years I've been doing this, I've never > heard that. A day is not wasted when you learn something new. Thanks > for the tidbit. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
