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bharani

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From: Karaikudi, India

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 202

[solved]User's home folder opens instead of roots home folder

I have used linux mint for about 18 months.Recently i switched to Arch linux.
I have a doubt about arch's root user.

      In terminal when i use su to gain root account , i am still in my own home folder.I think that i should be in root's home folder. In root account if i open thunar it shows my home folder. Also when i run firefox as root ,it takes my profile instead of a new profile. Is it the correct behavior or have i screwed up anything.

   The results are the same when i use sudo.

Please clarify me.

Last edited by bharani (2009-07-29 16:00:34)

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Trent

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From: Baltimore, MD (US)

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 990

Re: [solved]User's home folder opens instead of roots home folder

By default, neither su nor sudo changes the environment for the running program.   It doesn't make a difference to the privileges you have.

If you want to switch users as if you had logged in as root, use the - switch to su (just a plain hyphen) or the -i switch to sudo:

sudo -i
su -

Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: [solved]User's home folder opens instead of roots home folder

To change to another user and take on their environment, the command you're looking for is:

su - username

Missing out the "-" just gives you their permissions and suchlike.

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FeatherMonkey

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Registered: 2007-02-26

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Re: [solved]User's home folder opens instead of roots home folder

Read the fine manual I would guess su on some of the "easy distro's" are being aliased to su -

bharani

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From: Karaikudi, India

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 202

Re: [solved]User's home folder opens instead of roots home folder

Thank you.
That clarifies me.

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