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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: what happens to .login and aliases when su Date: 16 Feb 1995 08:58:51 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3hv44b$bas@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3hgdir$mu6@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu (Ron Porter) writes: > 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). The mind boggles... >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? su - Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |