On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Anne Wilson wrote:

> 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.

I use Ctrl-d, myself. The height of laziness. :)

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