Re: Root login from remote system

[manas garg <manasg@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, VaibhaV Sharma wrote:

> when u log in as root u get the environment settings as of the root and u
> get the home directory as that of root but when u do su u get priviledges
> equivlent to root but your home dir etc would be by deffault that of your
> username by which u logged in and environment also would be the older one.

No!! That depends on how you invoke 'su'. What you say happens if you use

#su

But if you use 

#su -

you get the environment of root. Just the DISPLAY and variable (or maybe
some other variables) are not set. But you can always export them. eg.
Whenever I 'su -', I also do 'export DISPLAY=localhost:0' so that I can
launch any gui app with the priviledges of root.

> Its only that u can do ANYTHING on the system.

It's not only that ;-) It's also that you can do ANYTHING just the way you
do when you *login* as root. Am I right??

Manas



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