On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:26:29AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 04:14:53PM +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > You could point them to StackExchange in the meantime. (-: > > > > * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/460769/5132 > > On that page: > > Doing plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, > > Name one! Seriously, what kind of inane statement is that?
I have five reasons for you. They are called AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, RHEL and busybox's su in no particular order. It's not the first time Debian project chose to do exactly the same others did for decades. > > If you want to restore behaviour more similar to the previous one you can > > add 'ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes' in /etc/login.defs. > > OK, I'll just go to Debian's online man pages and find the buster > man page for su (or login.defs) to find out what that is... > > ... hey, where's the buster man pages? Exactly there they belong. In .deb archives. Reco
