From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 15:58:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF33152C9 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12B4zN-000NLZ-00; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:58:13 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA66056 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:58:13 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:58:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: zsh alias question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, i'm trying to get my aliases from my user account to transfer when i su -m to root. I don't want to attach all my config files, so which ones should i post to see what is wrong? All four are identical (all contain aliases) and .zshenv contains some environment settings. When i su -m, only the two built-in aliases survive. All others are gone. With bash, they survive. Also, when i first enabled the toor account, it acted just like root. Then, when i added a /home/toor directory and startup scripts, i could change my shell for toor without affecting root. (Which is the whole point, IIUC, to have a root account with a shell besides csh or sh). Now that i removed the home directory, the two accounts act identical. CHanging one password (toor) also changes root, and vice-versa. Is this normal? How can i have toor use a different shell without adding a toor home directory, which i am not supposed to need? -=> jm <=- "Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell, and i didn't care which...." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message