RE: Remote login

["Bill Andersen" <bill mwdental com>]

Karl L. Perason wrote:
> One note about Bill's suggestion: su alone only gives you superuser
> priveleges but leaves you in your own shell. If you want to become root,
> you must do su - which causes you to become root in every aspect and
> changes you to /root and gives you all the environment variables root
> enjoys, including PATH, etc. As a normal user and if you only use su, you
> won't have /usr/sbin in your PATH. If you su -, you will.

TRUE!  And since I've already admitted to logging in as root WAY too
often, I'll also have to admit I forgot about that.  That brought up
this question: When I DO use my user account and simply "su" to make
a quick change, why don't I run into more problems?  Well, looking at
my user account's .profile, I find /usr/sbin in my PATH (and a few
other things that probably shouldn't be there)

Wow, and I'm giving out sys admin advice?  Venessa, remember, do as I
say, not as I do :)

Thanks Karl!

Bill