RE: sendmail 8.9

[Kevin_Saenz dell com]

No what happens is when you run su you become root but with your
environment settings, when you use su - you log in as root
with root's environment settings. even if you logged in using
su you can just run /usr/bin/setup
or anyother file you don't really need to use ./ to run anything


> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Neidorff [mailto:neidorff bellatlantic net]
> Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 12:12
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: sendmail 8.9
> 
> 
> At 02:23 PM 03/05/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Paul
> >
> >Login as root and run setup or as su cd /usr/sbin and run 
> ./setup (you
> >must use the ./ to run it as su), select system services.  
> Scroll down
> >until you find sendmail and select it with the space bar.
> 
> 
> If I understand you correctly, when you use su, add a '-' 
> parameter.  Then 
> when you "become" root, you log into root's home directory 
> and get root's 
> environment so that if the file is in the path you don't have 
> to type the 
> './'.  That being said, it is an excellent security measure 
> to ALWAYS use 
> the full path to any program when running as root.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark
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