Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> When you use su do it as 'su - root' and you will actually be root.  'su root' 
> just gives you some of root's privileges.

Not so.

When you "su", you're root - but with the previous user's environment.

When you "su -" you're root, with root's login environment.

Regards

Peter.
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