From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 3 10:48:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diablo.peritek.com (diablo.peritek.com [198.151.249.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9B415997 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ibjoe@home.com) Received: from neptune (neptune [198.151.249.84]) by diablo.peritek.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA01930; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:47:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: ibjoe@home.com X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <2.2.32.19990903174750.0097a7ec@netmail.home.com> X-Sender: ibjoe@netmail.home.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:47:50 -0700 To: Gustavo Rios From: Joe Bo Subject: Re: su root mail [was RE: password wrong] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message