running programs from user acctount as root

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:59:23 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

>     For 10 years I have used: $ su -

The difference between su and su - is that the - makes the new shell a login
shell.  This means that you get the default path and environment for the user
that you just su'ed to.

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