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setting up Super User environment

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From: Rachel Polanskis
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:00
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Hello,

thanks to all who helped me get my little sun on the network.
So far it is doing everything I like except for when I change to SU for 
some tasks.

I use the korn shell (ksh) on here as my main shell.
I also have a history key and backspace delete keys mapped somewhere to 
do the right thing as well.

What I want to be able to do is pass all of this stuff to SU so it 
performs Exactly like my user account.

I am annoyed if I make a typo under SU that I get ^? and the like in my 
commands if I try to overwrite the mistake, and also history key (mapped 
to ^P ) prints exactly that (^P)
I have already accidentally created directories with ^ characters in 
them, which I had to remove, as once I cleared the mistake, although the
syntax looked OK, the ^ char was still silently embedded in it...

Also I cannot get filename completion under SU 
either. Is all this meant to be for security?

I really would prefer convenience sometimes especially when I mistype 
something.

I know what the various commands are (I think)  so how do I pass the 
environment I am used to to SU?

I have tried several things but nothing works....

thanks 


Rachel  
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From: rachel@juno.virago.org.au (Rachel Polanskis)
Subject: setting up Super User environment
Date: 1995/11/25
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