> 
> which did you use?
> su or su -
> 
> su will give you root priviliges with your path
> su - will give you root with root's paths.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thank you very much.. this is now clear.

I sort of relised that su did not change environment variables...but 
thought that if user had access to X --or modem-- root ought to as well.
I did not understand the man page :-(

Geoffrey

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