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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: what happens to .login and aliases when su
Date: 16 Feb 1995 08:58:51 GMT
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porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu (Ron Porter) writes:

> I recently took out the "secure" from the psterms so i can no longer
> telnet into my FreeBSD1.1.5.1 machine as root(for security reasons).

The mind boggles...

>Now i log in as a common user and the su to root. But when i do
>this, i no loger have my alieses that i really want or my customized
>prompt. How do i get these to work when i su?

su -

Cheers

Leigh
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| "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart                |
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|  began to suspect 'Hungry' ..."  | C/- 195 Gilles Street     |
|   -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide  SA  5006        |