On Sunday 22 Mar 2009, Sudhang Shankar wrote: > On Sunday 22 Mar 2009 4:34:24 pm Arun Khan wrote: > > > i think one has to do > > > "sudo su" > > > > Recommend "sudo su - <user name>" > > > > gives you the user's shell environment; in the absence of an <user > > name> you get the super user's environment. > > But that's what he wants, right? Quoth Raghav:
the emphasis is on the "-"; w/o the the "-" you inherit the regular user's environment i.e. the one who does "sudo su". It can lead to strange problems especially with scripts. > >"sudo" command is not working in the tarminal, *when > >i give the command to enter in the root, it shows fail to it . I do not quite understand what the OP is trying to say. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
