From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 01:56:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22088 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 01:56:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from righi.df.unibo.it (RIGHI.DF.UNIBO.IT [137.204.49.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21562 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 01:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@righi.df.unibo.it) Received: from localhost (admin@localhost) by righi.df.unibo.it (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA00369; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:52:05 GMT (envelope-from admin@righi.df.unibo.it) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:52:04 +0000 (GMT) From: The Administrator To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su In-Reply-To: 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" HEllo, well on a lot of unix systems linux included when a users is su to root the w command does not display what the user is doing this for privacy reason because one is root. Soo is it possible to change the behaviour in some way or one must hack himself the w.c program in FreeBSD ? Rick On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, The Administrator wrote: > > > how come when I become root using su > > the w commmand display what I Am doing instead of displaying - ? > > on many unix system this does not happen why it happens here > > on FreeBSD? > > THere is a way to change this behaviour of w ? > > Sure, use who instead. w always displays the current process of the user. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > >