From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 9:12:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB2C14EBC for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA72155; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 21:10:34 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 21:10:34 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" 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 On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote: >> I never use 'root' anymore. I always 'su toor' when I need to be >> superuser. This is because I like to use bash. > >Hmmm... general question then; > >Is there some reason why you wouldn't use "su -m" instead of "su >toor"? Is there some security issue of which I'm unaware? The reason is that I do not know what su -m is. :) Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message