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Date:      Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:47:50 -0700
From:      Joe Bo <ibjoe@home.com>
To:        Gustavo Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: su root mail [was RE: password wrong]
Message-ID:  <2.2.32.19990903174750.0097a7ec@netmail.home.com>

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At 02:28 PM 9/3/99 -0300, you wrote:
>Try su - root

huh, that's funny. I have to include the "-".

without the "-" whoami says the user I su'd to,
but mail still thinks I am the user I su'd from.

I didn't find that I have to use the "-" in the man page for su...

thanks



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