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Old 04-06-2004, 10:40 PM   #16
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Don't get me wrong, su does give you full root "permissions.."
But it doesn't change your path or environment variables to what is normal for "root". It keeps your user's environment variables, like your PATH, and simply super-userfies your priveleges.

The other (su -) treats it as if root is physically logging in.

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