On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 14:12 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: > On 06/04/2008, Ned Slider <nedslider at f2s.com> wrote: > I've just drafted a FAQ/mini-HOWTO on becoming root as this is > a topic I see come up time and time again. > > Perhaps someone with a reasonable understanding could check it > for technical correctness, and if anyone would like to offer > comments/feedback?? > > Any suggestions as to where might be an appropriate home for > this on the Wiki? > > 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 ?) > > 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>. Same as mine says See below. > > 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." I have an old Unix in a Nut Shell by O'Reilly. It mentions if the shell runs "SH" you can specify the option -c to execute a command by SH and -r to create a restricted shell. Then it mentins use EOF to terminate. > > Perhaps a mention of sudo and sudoers could also be made? > > Alan. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079