From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 8:25:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9BA14E18 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11g8TR-000Gdr-00; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:25:21 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA81497; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:25:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:25:21 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Michael Lucas Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su -m vs. su toor? (Was Re: user toor?) In-Reply-To: <199910261519.LAA93657@blackhelicopters.org> 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 Also, i have found that using 'su' loses some of the profile settings i had set in root's .profile settings. I still do it the old fashioned way: switching to a new vt and logging in as root (which is running bash, but maybe i should change that). Is there a better way? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message