can't adduser

[Eric Diamond]

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:51 AM, xyzzy at hotpop.com
said:
> The reason for this being that "su" by itself does not
set 
> "/sbin" and "/usr/sbin" in the path, whereas "su -"
does.
> 

Actually, the - argument to su is shorthand for -l or
--login option. This gives you the default evironment of
the user ID that was switched to.

Read more using 'info su' at the command line...

Eric Diamond
eDiamond Networking & Security
303-246-9555
eric at ediamond.net