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Re: Switching user and environment variables to root to install packages

To: NetBSD Users Mailing List <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Switching user and environment variables to root to install packages
From: Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 21:58:04 +0930

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:31:32PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 
> Try 'su -'
> The '-' should inherit the environment.
> 

No. It does exactly the opposite.

-- 
Brett Lymn
Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

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