But it is different. Significantly different. I’d rather just use ‘su’ and have the login sequence trip the loading of my aliases. Moving this to .bashrc has solved that. That’s what I was asking. > On May 13, 2019, at 4:37 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote: > > The 'su' man page explains all of this pretty well I think. Becoming > root isn't special, in terms of loading .bash_profile vs. .bashrc. Cheers, Bee