Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:17:08 +0930, Tim wrote:

> If you switch users to root by just using "su" then you're still using
> the non-root user's paths and environment.  If you log in as root, or do
> "su -" to switch to root, then you're using the roots environment, which
> includes /sbin.

Since oh so many users don't seem to know this, "su -" is short
for "su -l" which in turn is the short option for "su --login".
It gives you a full login shell environment. See top of "man su".

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