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#8 Re: MIT Kerberos installation on Debian Posted by daemon (146.231.xx.xx) on Sun 16 Dec 2007 at 20:12 No it doesn't. Not here anyway -- what shell are you using? The reason that it's not working here is that the single quotes in your commandline prevent the $USER from being expanded before it's passed on to `su`, and as $USER is expanded by the root shell spawned by su, it expands to 'root'. Now, if you didn't use single quotes, or as Anonymous suggests, use $LOGNAME (which as you're not getting su to start a login shell still holds the name of the current non-root user), then it all works. But, here at least, it doesn't work the way you wrote it, but I guess it could be shell dependant... Cheers. :wq

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