problem with su

[Jez Hancock]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:46:53PM -0000, Edmund Craske wrote:
> This isn't right, when using the -m flag su uses your current
> environment, keeping your shell, prompt etc the same as in your
> own account. All I can think of is that it executes something
> when it opens the new shell which changes it, which shouldn't
> be root's cshrc. Perhaps some shell script conditional gubbins
> around the prompt statement in the user's cshrc?

Mmm you're right - personally I do:

su -

to su from my normal to root user and I have ~root/.cshrc symlinked to
~user/.cshrc (ditto for most other dotrc files :P).

Works for me.

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