also, if root is deleted or disabled, dont you loose part of the
functionality of su ... the part where you just type su - and you are now
root, provideing you know the pw?
It would appear so. When I tried it on my munged up system just now, I got
the old "user root does not exist" when I tried 'su -'
However, 'su - falseroot' still worked as expected. Also, just a note in
case you want to experiment, once I recreated my
root user, 'su -' worked normally again.
yeah, these were the results i would expect, cause the way i have learnt it
(self tought, not always acurate) is that su is for switching users, and
would thus point to root were the su - falseroot knows who to log in as.
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