On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:12:32PM +0300, Reco wrote: > To: > > Well, there have been long discussions about this, but the problem is > that what "su" is supposed to do is very unclear. On one hand it's > supposed *to open a new session* and change a number of execution > context parameters (uid, gid, env, ...), and on the other it's supposed > to inherit a lot concepts from the originating session (tty, cgroup, > audit, ...). > > > I'm kind of surprised that the bug was not closed as WONTFIX. su(1) is > not a "full login", but it's not supposed to provide one anyway.
su - <name> Has always worked fine for me. What's the problem? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X