Re: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command

[Andreas Schwab]

Raj <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> But why is it that after 'su - root', running 'ps' shows 'su' as a
> separate process, whereas, 'su - otheruser' and then 'ps' does not show
> su' in the process list ??

Because you didn't list all processes.

Andreas.

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