ah didnt see the - there, must look at peoples examples more carefully :) Gavin On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Matt Kemner wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Gavin Tweedie wrote: > > > when you su to a user pine takes the real UID so it thinks you are still > > root. > > not if you specify a - between su and the username (just like I put in my > example - "su - russ") > > - Matt >