From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 8:50:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E7E14E33 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from jazz.monsterbymistake.com (jazz.monsterbymistake.com[205.207.163.189]) by mail.monsterbymistake.com (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #3; 1998-Sep-25) (1364 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp id (sender ident using rfc1413) for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:41:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:59:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Agent Drek To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: su -m vs. su toor? (Was Re: user toor?) 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 On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: |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?) | |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 Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' mailto:drek@monsterbymistake.com http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message