Laine Stump wrote
> I *must* be overlooking something really stupid... (another problem
> I've been having just came to my mind - for some reason, when I ftp
> from this machine, it always suggests the username "root" instead of
> my own username. I wonder if the two problems might be somehow
> related...)

Do you login as root first and then change the user with su?

e.g.:

# su wulf
# su -l wulf     # same as su - wulf

If so, it will exhibit the behaviour you described above.

I consider this to be a bug especially when using the -l that
requests a full login.

From the su man-page
-l      Simulate a full login.  The environment is discarded except
	for HOME, SHELL, PATH, TERM, USER, and SU_FROM.  HOME SHELL,
	and SU_FROM are modified as above.

Any comments?

cheerio Berndt
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