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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!gw1.att.com!news.bu.edu!usenet From: mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SU's or TCSH's behavior (bug?) Date: 15 Jan 1996 14:56:35 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 20 Sender: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Message-ID: <4ddpv3$sr4@news.bu.edu> References: <4cu8fd$54l@news.bu.edu> <DL3z2B.72F@seeware.dialix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-84-28.bu.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <DL3z2B.72F@seeware.dialix.oz.au>, mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) writes: >putte:~/src> su >Password: >putte:~/src# echo $user >mark >putte:~/src# echo $prompt >%m:%~%# > >Now you can see a # if you are root, doesn't really help with mail though - btw. >On my system su is aliased to su -m, but even \su'ing leaves $user set. > BTW, Solaris' su does change it... I guess, it is a concept-question: am I (kind of) logging-in as root or simply getting the root's privileges when su-ing? Fuzzy difference, though ;) -mi