From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!kiessig Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Re: Blood-curdling su and newgrp - (nf) Article-I.D.: fortune.356 Posted: Thu Aug 19 18:33:49 1982 Received: Sat Aug 21 01:50:17 1982 #R:sri-unix:-277700:fortune:11600004:000:409 fortune!kiessig Aug 19 13:26:00 1982 The way I handle su seems to work fairly well: su once, and then say "stop $$" (only on 4.1BSD, of course), which returns me to my non-su csh. "fg" then makes me su again. This can be carried levels of shells (i.e. "su user" from the su shell, followed by another "stop $$"). The only disadvantage is that you can loose context if you have too many shells. Changing their prompts helps... Rick Kiessig