Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 01:07:41 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Zsolt Szabadi <zsolts@cats.ucsc.edu>, "'BSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: login for the first time Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961221010252.11289B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961221194049.11072B-100000@zipper.zip.com.au>
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On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Sue Blake wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Doug White wrote: > > > 4. Logout; login as yourself. > > 5. Anytime you need superuser access, run the 'su' command and give > > root's password at the Password: prompt. > > > Whoah! > > That's what they all told me, causing much grief. > > I was supposed to know that there's some things you can't do after simply > typing 'su', and that to become a real root for a while you have to type 'su -' It's not a matter of "real root" -- it's a matter of how much of the environment you want to keep and how much you want to discard. su is intentionally not equivalent to logging out and back in (if it were, you would get the same warning message when su'ing that you get when logging in as root). Read the su man page for details on how to get su to give the behavior you want. > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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