On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 09:41 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 14 October 2012 21:43:59 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 21:36 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > su > > > is enough. > > > > No, it should be > > > > su - > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ su > Password: > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# whoami > root > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# Very often I run GUIs (gedit etc.) after su, but sometimes su - is needed.