[ale] Quick Question

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
> su - username

... where "username" is "root" by default, so "su -" should
do what you want. In general, the "-" means "treat this
su as a login rather than a simple change in UID, and
run all appropriate shell login scripts and so forth."

Cheers,

-- Joe
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calvin Harrigan [mailto:charrig at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 6:17 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Quick Question
> 
> How do I import (switch to) the root environment when I 'su' from another
> user?  I haven't been able to get it to work....
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