 | | | path fudge | path fudge 2003-06-08 - By Stewart M. Ives
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If you login as a user and then you:
su
And provide the root password when prompted then you will end up
with a # prompt BUT the same path as you originally logged in as
the user and not the root path.
If you login as a user and then you:
su -
And provide the root password when prompted then you will end up
with a # prompt AND root's path which includes /sbin and
/usr/sbin.
stew
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From: enigma-list-admin@(protected)
[mailto:enigma-list-admin@(protected)]On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:16 AM
To: enigma-list@(protected)
Subject: Re: path fudge
On 01:24 08 Jun 2003, Oisin C. Feeley <ofeeley@(protected)> wrote:
| On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote:
| >On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:25 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| >> On 13:54 07 Jun 2003, jdow <jdow@(protected)> wrote:
| >> | Usually one wants to do the module "thing" as root. That's
why /sbin
| >> | and /usr/sbin are not on the standard user path. So I
suspect the
| >> | proper way to fix it is to perform the operation as root.
| >>
| >> Yeah, but on RedHat /sbin's not in root's $PATH either:-(
| >
| >I don't have a machine running 7.2 at the moment.
| >/sbin is in root's $PATH on my 7.3, 8.0, and 9 machines:
[...]
| Me too. Isn't this disparity the result of doing "su root"
versus "su
| - root", where the latter behaves as a login shell?
I'm going to have to dig more deeply then - I definitely run into
this
a lot at work. I'll report back when I've figured out what's
different.
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Cameron Simpson <cs@(protected)> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
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Facts. Facts
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[1854]
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