Le Vendredi 31 à 20:27, Fred Condo a écrit :
Use this syntax (both equivalent):
su - root
su -l root
You do have to specify the user with -l. Perhaps the man page could
clarify that.
I read the first line that says The su utility requests appropriate
user credentials via PAM and switches to
On Friday 31 October 2008 19:33:44 Frédéric Perrin wrote:
As a side question, is it considered bad practice to set root's shell
and locales to something else then the default ?
By some (most?) yes. If you decide to change the default shell, to one that's
not in the base system (i.e., a
Hello,
When I « su - » to root (after being logged in as my normal user), the
LOGNAME env variable is still set to my previous user, as in :
,
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /usr/bin/su -l
| Password:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $USER - $LOGNAME
| root - fred
`
As far as I can tell, this
Hi--
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
When I « su - » to root (after being logged in as my normal user), the
LOGNAME env variable is still set to my previous user, as in :
,
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /usr/bin/su -l
| Password:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $USER - $LOGNAME
|
Use this syntax (both equivalent):
su - root
su -l root
You do have to specify the user with -l. Perhaps the man page could
clarify that.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
Hello,
When I « su - » to root (after being logged in as my normal user), the
LOGNAME env variable
