From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 12: 1:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zogbe.tasam.com (uta-ip196.ntc.off-campus.vt.edu [63.165.178.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBC937B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (clash@localhost) by zogbe.tasam.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f85J1bh93791; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:01:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:01:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Gleason To: Bsd Newbie Cc: Subject: Re: difference between su and root? In-Reply-To: <20010905185625.14061.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010905145956.S90403-100000@zogbe.tasam.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG root is the System Administrator account with access to everything su is a program that allows you to Switch Users Very diffrent objects. Many people (myself included) use su to become the root user. clash$ clash$ su - Password: root# On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Bsd Newbie wrote: > > Are there any differences between the two... or is su another way of > saying root? > > -Sameer > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger > http://im.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message