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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: su -m vs. su toor? (Was Re: user toor?)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910261156460.20783-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910261623500.81010-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote:

|Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:25:21 +0100 (BST)
|From: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
|To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
|Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
|Subject: Re: su -m vs. su toor? (Was Re: user toor?)
|
|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

try this:

su - toor
or
su - root

	=derek

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