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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Re: Question about mv and su in 3.3.1
Message-ID: <90Dec15.143144est.19452@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
References: <1990Dec11.190615.3551@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 19:32:02 GMT

manson@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (Bob Manson) writes:
>If I use su to become root while in my home directory, and I mv a file
>to /tmp, for example, who should own the file?  Me, or root?   Under 

Depending if you do a "su" or "su -" you will get different results.
The latter effectively performs the same stuff a "login root" would
do.  The "su" only changes some minor things.

Homework:
	% pwd
	/foo/bar
	% su
	% id
	uid=<non-zero> gid=<something>
	% pwd
	/foo/bar
	% ^D

	% pwd
	/foo/bar
	% su -
	# pwd
	/
	# id
	uid=0(root) gid=<something>
	# ^D
	% pwd
	/foo/bar

I tend to use "su" only when I need to read certain files.  I use "su
-" for more major work.