Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
When you use su do it as 'su - root' and you will actually be root. 'su root' just gives you some of root's privileges.
Not so. When you "su", you're root - but with the previous user's environment. When you "su -" you're root, with root's login environment. Regards Peter. -- peter.whysall@ntlworld.com Debian GNU/Linux sid on i386 and hppa Editor, www.kuro5hin.org