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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > su gives super user (root) access to ordinary users
> > (if they know the root password).
> 
> I will get it from shadow.tgz and try it but why do that 
> instead of just log in as root?  Is it really more secure 
> somehow?  

AFAIK su is no more secure than root.  The security comes
from running as user and only using su when you really need
it.

> I am tired of running into things user cannot do, such as 
> write files to disk.

That's why BL3 runs as root.

Cheers,
Steven

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