Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > Yet the su manpage clearly states that su doesn´t open a new login session.
Does not. The manpage states that su is meant to change your UID _during_ a login session. If there is no such thing, the fact that it creates a new session for you should not be too surprising. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140511133328.gb13...@smurf.noris.de