Path: utzoo!attcan!craig
From: craig@attcan.UUCP (Craig Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Bug in /bin/su?
Message-ID: <13866@vpk2.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 91 20:20:58 GMT
References: <1299@kosman.UUCP>
Reply-To: craig@vpk2.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell)
Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto
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In article <1299@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>I'm not sure I understand all the issues here, but I'm having trouble
>with /bin/su.
>
>After logging in, if I su to anything, it works as expected; if I then
>try to su to something else, there seems to be no actual change of
>which user I am.

Kevin, I did not notice any reference to which Unix OS you are running, so
this may be way off base, but have you tried,

	su - <newuser>

instead of 

	su <newuser>
?

The first example MAY do what you desire (or not:-)).


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>Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com )
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Good Luck,

craig