su command question

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:51 +0100, Alan Milnes wrote:

> In the end both ways work, both ways run it with root privileges, I 
> think my way is cleaner but this is Linux there's always more than one 
> option.

No, my example runs it with the privileges of the user "ventrilo" which
is quite different than running the command with root privileges.
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