On 06/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ned Slider</b> <<a href="mailto:nedslider@f2s.com">nedslider@f2s.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've just drafted a FAQ/mini-HOWTO on becoming root as this is a topic I see come up time and time again.<br>
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Perhaps someone with a reasonable understanding could check it for technical correctness, and if anyone would like to offer comments/feedback??<br>
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Any suggestions as to where might be an appropriate home for this on the Wiki?</blockquote><div><br>As someone who was used to all users having the same search-path (I'm going back 25 or so years), when I first came across the use of a separate path for the super-user I asked the question "Why?". I have long since answered that question and support the concept. (An aside, can anyone tell me why one of the original grep flags, -y, was changed to -i ?)<br>
<br>Perhaps what also needs to be said is that "su <user>" gives the current user the identity of <user> whilst "su - <user>" gives the current user the identity of <user> *along with* <user>'s environment that would normally be obtained by logging in as <user>. <br>
<br>I probably haven't expressed the above very well. Looking in my old Unix System V manuals for the su command, I read "An initial - flag causes the environment to be changed to the one that would be expected if the user actually logged in again."<br>
<br>Perhaps a mention of sudo and sudoers could also be made?<br><br>Alan.<br></div><br></div><br>