man page for su

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 20 03:50:50 UTC 2009


On 04/20/2009 04:30 AM, Mani A wrote:
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> In a recent discussion it was pointed out that the man page for 'su'
> is badly written.
> For example, the difference between
> "# su abc" and "#su - abc" does not come out clearly.
> I think we should modify it. What do you say?

Note that in Fedora 10 onwards, the path has been modified so ther eis
no effective difference between su and su - by default anymore.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity

If you think, it needs to be clarified, file a bug report with the
suggested wording.

Rahul




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