[dundee] Re: sndconfig

[Andrew Clayton]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 20:43, alex mole wrote:
> never tried any of this, but it could well be that you need a:
> 
> $ su - root
> 
> instead of
> 
> $ su root
> 
> [the "-" means that root's path info gets included. the *sbin 
> directories are not on users' paths]
> 

Correct the '-' initiates a full login (reads ~/. files)

su - root can also be shortened to just su [-]

you can of course also do su [-] someotheruser

su [-] -c "some command"

is sometimes handy. Both those commands will ask for root's password.