Re: su

[Peter Palfrader <palfrader@writeme.com>]

Hi Daniel!

On Sun, 07 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> 
> Does the 'su' command expire after a certain time? If it doesn't how do
> you 'go-back' to a normal user?

others have already pointed out how to `exit' su :)

However I'ld like to tell you why you need to exit or logout. su does
not give root (or whatever) priviliges to the shell you type run it
but instead starts a _new_ shell process with the wanted
rights. Therefore you have to logout from this shell or kill it to
`go-bak' to the normal user.

HTH

				yours,
				peter
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