25 Mar
2002
25 Mar
'02
03:03
On Sunday, 24 March 2002 16:53, Tom Nicholson wrote:
At boot up, I get a graphical login. I login name= tom and enter p/w. KDE2 starts. Do ctrl-alt-F2, login as tom in text screen. (same user name & p/w) Land in /home/tom directory. Do su - enter root p/w and land in /root. So what I was saying was I didn't want to land in /root, rather in /home/tom after doing su -.
If as Tom you were in /home/tom and as root you want to still be in /home/tom, then you can't do 'su -', you have to do a plain 'su'. As I said before, a 'su -' does a *double* change: changes the user *and* the directory. Regards, gr