Re: tlug: shelling root

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

Duh, I made a newbie mistake if ever.  In SunOS, as far as I remember, you
could just su and then enter the password and get all the privilages of
root.  I tried 'su - root' and now everything works fine.  Is this really
a SunOS/Linux difference?  Or, is this due to a RH setup diff?  Or, is it
due to my stupidity? <grin>

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:04:40AM +0900, Eric S. Standlee wrote:
> > But, that doesn't explain how su root doesn't have all the same priv.s as
> > login root... Help.
> 
> 'su' and 'su -l' change environment variables (including your PATH)... but
> the privileges should be the same.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586
> 
> 

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