On 25/07/12 20:10, Stephen Harris wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:27:09PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
S I want the ability to set the default path. That's all.
It sounds like your best bet would be to change the source for su, and
just be
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:27:09PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
S I want the ability to set the default path. That's all.
It sounds like your best bet would be to change the source for su, and
just be prepared to reinstall it if/when yum (or
Stephen Harris lists@... writes:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris lists@... wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target
David G. Miller wrote:
Stephen Harris lists@... writes:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris lists@... wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -'
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Once a user has become root, they own the system. You really can't
restrict them at that point. If you don't want them doing some
things, perhaps su isn't the best solution.
Good point, Dave. Stephen - are you sure you don't want
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:46:24PM +, David G. Miller wrote:
Stephen Harris lists@... writes:
You've missed the point. I want the ability to set the default path on
'su -' to be /bin:/usr/bin and then let the users override if they wish.
I do not want the default path to be
On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
I want the ability to set the default path. That's all. Just so that
when I do su - foobar then the path defaults to /bin:/usr/bin. If foobar
wants to add /usr/local/bin then foobar decides. If I decide I want the
default path to be
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:43:54PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
I want the ability to set the default path. That's all. Just so that
set it in /etc/profile then. that gets run on su -l $someuser
Who says all my users run /bin/sh or /bin/bash as
On 07/24/2012 04:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
I want the ability to set the default path. That's all. Just so that
when I do su - foobar then the path defaults to /bin:/usr/bin. If foobar
wants to add /usr/local/bin then foobar decides. If I decide I want the
default path to be
On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
S I want the ability to set the default path. That's all.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:43:54PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
J set it in /etc/profile then. that gets run on su -l $someuser
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:53:23 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
S Who
Is there any way of changing the PATH that's set by 'su' to be specific
to my needs? It looks like 'su' has the path's hard coded.
% rpm -qf /bin/su
coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1
% strings /bin/su | grep local.bin
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote:
Is there any way of changing the PATH that's set by 'su' to be specific
to my needs? It looks like 'su' has the path's hard coded.
% rpm -qf /bin/su
coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1
% strings /bin/su | grep local.bin
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target
user's login environment?
It's su - that causes the 'su' comman to rewrite the PATH to the
hardcoded default.
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rgds
Stephen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target
user's login environment?
It's su - that causes the 'su' comman to rewrite the PATH to the
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target
user's login environment?
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote:
But it should be executing the target user's .profile which can
override it. '-' should be a synonym for -l or --login.
You've missed the point. I want the ability to set the default path on
'su -' to be
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:52:28PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote:
You've missed the point. I want the ability to set the default path on
'su -' to be /bin:/usr/bin and then let the users override if they wish.
I do not
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote:
That's never a reasonable solution for an enterprise distro; what happens
at the next yum update? :-)
The reasonable solution is to live with the defaults...
If the answer is it's hard coded; nothing you can do then I
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:31:12PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Hmmm, per 'man su' on a debian system, you can override with ENV_PATH
(default /bin:/usr/bin) or (for root) ENV_SUPATH (default
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) /etc/login.defs. Adding
/usr/local/bin must be an RH-specific patch.
On 07/23/2012 02:37 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harrisli...@spuddy.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:16:57PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 07/23/2012 02:37 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
You've missed the point. I want the ability to set the default path on
'su -' to be /bin:/usr/bin and then let the users override if they wish.
I do not want the default path to
On 07/23/2012 10:02 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
That's never a reasonable solution for an enterprise distro; what happens
at the next yum update? :-)
You could put your locally modified su into /usr/local/bin :-)
Mogens
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