On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:46 pm, Bill Mullen wrote:

> The only "ramification" of using su in an xterm to become root is
> that any program you run from that shell thereafter is run as root;
> the rest of your desktop is running as your logged-in user, and is
> unaffected.
>
The odd thing is that no-one ever bothered to say that after a root 
terminal session you could switch back to user immediately by typing 
'exit'.  It suddenly became so much more convenient.

Anne

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