topic Re: 'su - root' and 'su root' in Operating System - HP-UX

'su - root' and 'su root'

kunjuttan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:38:22 GMT

What is the differnce between 'su - root' and
'su root' ??

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

Torsten. — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:43:16 GMT

With "-" the profile will be executed.

man su

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

kunjuttan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:49:37 GMT

Thanks,but what will be the difference if profile is executed or not??

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

Steven Schweda — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:58:44 GMT

> Thanks,but what will be the difference if
> profile is executed or not??

A non-psychic might need to see what is in
the user's "~/.profile" file before he could
answer that.

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

Vishu — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:42:18 GMT

Hi,

su allow one user to become other user without logging out.

Without -, su allow one user to become other user and retain its exported environment.

With -, su allow one user to become other user and change the environment what would be expected if that user actually log into.

I hope it clear your doubt.

Thanks

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:56:29 GMT

Hi:

You REALLY need to begin reading the manpages and the wealth of documents at:

http://docs.hp.com/index.html

Your questions are basic ones. Searching for the answers yourself will teach you more than flooding this Forum with queries.

Your questions are NOT related to LVM and should be posed (for the most part) in the "General" or "System Administration" family.

This site is not meant as pre-certification or interview test service. I regret to say that you seem to be using it as one or the other.

...JRF...

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

Scott Lindstrom_2 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:21:06 GMT

You could write an HPUX book just by reading dipeshvasudevan's questions and all the replies.

Re: 'su - root' and 'su root'

kunjuttan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:33:57 GMT

Thanx buddies...