Thanks. It worked. Although its still strange why debian 9.8 behaves differently when i execute su foouser as root.
On 19/3/19 11:21 π.μ., Qiming Ye wrote:
Have you tried: # su - chomwitt - Qiming On 2019-03-19 10:57+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. $ man ls man: can't change directory to '/root': Permission denied man: command exited with status 255: sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }' | (cd /root && LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page ls(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page ls(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=ls(1) pager) In another 9.6 , changing user will put me in the user's home dir. Alexandros
