Hi, I think I made a mistake. I noticed that doing "su - " instead of "su" switches me the correct way to root account and then the PATH is correct.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie Jacek Kowalczyk http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/64/480 http://www.goldenline.pl/jacek-kowalczyk6 http://jacekkowalczyk.wordpress.com/ http://fotografia-pierwszekroki.blogspot.com/ śr., 12 wrz 2018 o 11:03 Jacek Kowalczyk <[email protected]> napisał(a): > Hi, > I faced similar issue > I was trying to use usermod command to add my user to sudo group and I was > getting error message that the usermod command was not found. > I checked the PATH env variable and it looks it is the same as for > standard users > root@kali-openbox:/home/kowalczy# echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games > > in /etc/profile I found > > if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then > PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" > else > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games" > fi > > > my root user id is 0 . > IMHO the if statement should be fixed to > > *if [ `id -u` -eq 0 ]; then* > > Pozdrawiam serdecznie > Jacek Kowalczyk > > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/64/480 > http://www.goldenline.pl/jacek-kowalczyk6 > http://jacekkowalczyk.wordpress.com/ > http://fotografia-pierwszekroki.blogspot.com/ > >
