[SWLUG] Super User

[Bryn Reeves]

On 17:07 Wed 22 Oct     , Daniel T. Morgan wrote:
> Hiya spoke to my solaris admin friend on msn
> 
> and he says:
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> FunkJames says:
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> anyways, standard su, no environment read
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> FunkJames says:
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> su - reads environment
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> FunkJames says:
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> I reckon he may be doing the - on it without realising ?
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> FunkJames says:
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> or maybe missing the minus before ?
> 
> hope this helps, if you need me to pass on any more questions answers to him, get in touch.
> 
> Regards
> Plod
>

Same behaviour with my solaris 2.6 box here. Infact, I think this is one thing
that is standard across all unices; 'su [username [args]]' allows you to become
another user, 'su - [username [args]]' causes you to become another user *and*
process that users normal login scripts.

Perhaps there was/is an alias for the 'su' command defined somewhere like 
RedHat does with ls?

Bryn