On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Mark Sansome wrote:

> But this looks wrong...:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su wifey
> Password: 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls -l $MAIL
> -rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug  7 17:11 /var/spool/mail/mark

"su"  (vs. "su -") does not completely change the user environment.

Try "su - wifey' and see how it looks.


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