On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tim Sinks wrote: > Be advised that there are certain verbs/commands you don't and can't do > from your own login or su'd. Unix/Linux and the systems are set up with > certain commands that should only be made while in root. Actually, the su command (if you use it to switch to the root user, which is the default if you don't specify a user to switch to) will give you full root access. If you do not specify a '-' after the su, it will keep your existing environmental variables intact - ie, it will not reset your path to include '/sbin', '/usr/sbin', etc. There isn't any difference in permissions between running a command in a su'd environment or running them in a 'real' root login - setting up your hard drive in a su'd environment would have the same result as doing it if you actually did it as root. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list