On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > > I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was > > > 3. In RedHat, the 'su' command allowed and '-l' switch, which would take > > the path settings of user to be su'ed to (ususally root in my case)...any > > way to do that with the debian 'su'? > > su - [user] > > [user] is optional if su'ing to root. > > HTH. > -Dano right, I usually use 'su' w/o the user specified, as I normally wanna get root priveleges...problem is, my PATH's aren't set. With RH, you could do an 'su -l', and get the PATH of the user you were switching to. Is there a switch for this in the debian 'su'? thanks :) -lev
