Hi. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:57:04AM +0200, aprekates wrote: > In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that: > > root@s165:~# pwd > /root > > root@s165:~# su chomwitt > chomwitt@s165:/root$ > > ..and from there i cant even execute ls.
It's expected, su(1) says that: The current environment is passed to the new shell That includes $PWD, which is current working directory for the shell. Use "su - chomwitt", it'll work the way you expect it. Reco

