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  From: Mark <markc@trinity.sa.edu.au>
  To  : John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:00:31 +0930

Re: "root" vs. "su"

Looks like it's in the man pages to me.

Mark Collis


SU(1)                          FSF                          SU(1)

NAME
        su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS
        su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]

DESCRIPTION
        Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.

        -, -l, --login
               make the shell a login shell


At 13:40 4/24/2001 +0930, John Edwards wrote:
>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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