Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Dennis Gilmore <dennis ausil us> said:su - on a fedora system does the same thing it loads the target users profile rather than using the source usersExcept "su -" has other side-effects (such as changing the working directory; highly annoying when you need to chown a file or some such).
In cases like this, sudo is your friend. Plus it'll leave an audit trail. /Thomas