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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!concorde.neosoft.com!dbaker From: dbaker@concorde.neosoft.com (Daniel Baker) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: what happens to .login and aliases when su Date: 11 Feb 1995 22:43:54 GMT Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3hjeja$80l@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <3hgdir$mu6@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: concorde.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ron Porter (porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu) wrote: : Hello, : I recently took out the "secure" from the psterms so i can no longer : telnet into my FreeBSD1.1.5.1 machine as root(for security reasons). : Now i log in as a common user and the su to root. But when i do : this, i no loger have my alieses that i really want or my customized : prompt. How do i get these to work when i su? : Thanks, Ron Porter In your .login add this line: alias su "su -m" -- Daniel Baker -- NeoSoft FTP/UseNet Administrator (713)531-8571 DBaker@NeoSoft.COM DBaker@Concorde-Mail.NeoSoft.COM