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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 302956788 by Aia on Saturday 3rd of October 2015 05:20:37 PM
Old 10-03-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by syncmaster
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?
the - means making the user name home the current.
Issue without it if you do not want to change the current directory
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