[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: SuSE 9 or 9.1 PATH environment changes after su

[James Taylor]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:06, terry wrote:
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> My question is, (and I know I'm probably showing my ignorance here, 
> but), in what case would it be better to use su without - ?

When you want to test out something that a particular user does and keep
their environment variables set as that user, but run them as a
different user to see whether the problem is with privs or with the
environment variables that are set...  for example:

su 
su user2