On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 05:32 -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > That's a pretty weird system you have if "su" doesn't have /sbin or > /usr/sbin in the path.
Not really... remember, 'su' simply changes the current user, it doesn't change the environment. Look at the output of 'env', and you'll see that things like $USER still have values for the user that ran 'su', not the user they're becoming. As far as I can tell, $HOME is the only thing that changes. That's the difference between 'su' and 'su -' - the latter runs a new login shell as the user in question, so the environment gets reset, running the login scripts for root which add the sbin directories to $PATH. Simon.
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