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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:16:32 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:

> Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> > Remember that "su -" will alter your environment to include /sbin and
> > /usr/sbin, while "su" will not. 
> 
> I did not know that.  In all the years I've been doing this, I've never
> heard that.  A day is not wasted when you learn something new.  Thanks
> for the tidbit.

You can't imagine how many users don't know about "su -" and only use
"su" and then think it's necessary to enter the absolute path to
programs.

- -- 
"su -" is short for "su --login root" or "su -l root".

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