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. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." - Robert Benchley
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