su not the same as login

[Steven J Lamb]

thank you for that answer it was very concise and seems to solve the problem
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: aaron hirsch 
  To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
  Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 2:43 PM
  Subject: RE: su not the same as login


  >I know this is most likely a newbie question, however, I have noticed that the env that I have after su is not the same as if I have logged in as >root. how would I fix that

   

  [aaron hirsch] 

   

  To take on the entire environment you need to use the - .  i.e. su - foo will give you foo's profile/env.su foo will make you foo, but you will still have your profile/env

   



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