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  From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  To  : Mark <markc@trinity.sa.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:40:32 +0930

Re: "root" vs. "su"

Mark wrote:
 
> try su -
> 
> It is one less keystroke and you are already 20% more productive (or 25% is
> you want to dick about with statistics ;-)

Yes, but it's not in the man page. Actually, it's not in the FreeBSD man
page, I appear to have used the wrong xterm when looking this up :). 

As such, I thought it might be confusing for someone actually checking
what it does before blindly executing commands they saw on a mailing
list.

John Edwards

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