Re: XFree86 & dselect questions
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
>
> > I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was
>
> > 3. In RedHat, the 'su' command allowed and '-l' switch, which would take
> > the path settings of user to be su'ed to (ususally root in my case)...any
> > way to do that with the debian 'su'?
>
> su - [user]
>
> [user] is optional if su'ing to root.
>
> HTH.
> -Dano
right, I usually use 'su' w/o the user specified, as I normally wanna get
root priveleges...problem is, my PATH's aren't set. With RH, you could do
an 'su -l', and get the PATH of the user you were switching to. Is there
a switch for this in the debian 'su'?
thanks :)
-lev
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