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[John Hernandez]

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Michael Hirsch wrote:
| "su -" will do it.
|
| I recommend instead that you setup sudo and add /sbin/ and /usr/sbin to
| your own path.  Then you can easily do read only things like ping,
| traceroute, ifconfig, route, etc without becoming root.  If you really
| need to be root, then just "sudo <command>".
|

I will second this recommendation.  I don't usually use "su -" because
it has the often unwanted side effect of changing your cwd (as in 'make
install'  whoops, no Makefile here ;).  Just add the sbin directories
to your own path and use sudo or plain 'su'.  To modify your path, use
~/.login or .profile depending on your shell.

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