[h]

h wrote:
> x x wrote:
>> what is ~/, like ~/.mg? Is that /home/.mg or /home/bob/.mg?
> 
> ~/ is defined as that users home folder
> 
> ie on my system, when I'm login in as kim
> 
> ~/
> 
> is the same as
> 
> /home/kim/
> 
> I'm not sure what happens to su, as i think it still goes to the 
> original user not root.

Actually no im being misleading there...

if you su, then cd ~/ you'll end up in /root/

sorry about that

kim