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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Switching from root to normal user takes me to user's home dir Post 302956787 by syncmaster on Saturday 3rd of October 2015 05:16:19 PM
Old 10-03-2015
Switching from root to normal user takes me to user's home dir
Whenever i switch from root to another user, by doing su - user, it takes me to home directory of user. This is very annoying as i want to be in same dir to run different commands as root sometimes and sometimes as normal user.

How to fix this?
 

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