I guess "man su could be our friend"...
As I understand it, it is the pathes and folders,, if you log in just su, then 
you have the path of the user you were, where as su- gives you the default 
path for root

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:06 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 03 Feb 2003 5:13 pm, robin wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > When you use "su", only those programs you open from that terminal have
> > root priveleges.  If you log in as root, all the other stuff does as
> > well.
>
> Robin, could you clarify for me, please, the difference between su and su -
> ?
>
> Anne


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