Service network restart

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Dec 21 03:54:20 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 22:33 -0500, P Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:22 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Mo, den 20.12.2004 schrieb Maciek R. um 22:26:
> > 
> > > What must I do to get this to work and how do you add and remove s.th.
> > > to the path anyway? (which commands)
> > 
> > > Maciek R. <m.mail at vp.pl>
> > 
> > Use "su -", not "su" to get a root _login_ shell.
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> Alexander;
> 
> Would you explain the difference between "su -" and "su"? I have always
> used "su" to get root, and it works, but I've seen documentation that
> says, and as you suggest, to use "su -". I'm curious why.
> 
---
man su

or for more verbose explanation

info su

Craig




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