Re: Root login from remote system

[Ravindra Jaju <jaju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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's not the case.
When you do "su - [username]", you get the default settings of the
"username". And if the username is missing, the default is the root login.
The "-" is important here ...

regards,
jaju


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