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Can't Try su
Authored by: itomato on May 06, '01 02:21:39PM

Yes, you sure can su as a normal user. That's who it's for. As root, you can su to _any_ user. So, you can su root, then - as 'Doug' su'd to root, you can su to 'Kathy', too. You can be anybody.



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Can't Try su
Authored by: itomato on May 06, '01 02:25:17PM

Forgot about this:
Also, you can tell your shell to be a login shell. When you start Terminal, you get a login: prompt. I'm away from my X box right now, but if you poke around in your .profile or .bashrc or tsch config file, the option should be there. If not, a quick check on Google is sure to turn up the answer.



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