Anthony Schneider wrote: > > Well, the reason I brought up $USER inheritance is that on linux, $USER is root > after an su to root, whereas on FreeBSD, the $USER is the same as before the su. > Not really thinking, I thought that perhaps that refleted the inherited $UID, > which I was wrong about. Sorry for that.
This is broken in Linux. USER is the login user name, which is invariant over "su", according to POSIX. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
