On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:51, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
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> One more difference I noticed: on Mandriva, when I just do "su", I get my
> root path ("/sbin", "/usr/sbin" included); I rarely if ever have to "su -".
> But on Kubuntu, "su" leaves the entire user environment the same, and just
> changes the effective userid, so "su -" is almost always required to do
> what you want to do (like being able to run /sbin programs without using
> fully qualified paths). I think the Kubuntu behaviour is actually closer to
> the "standard" behaviour, but it takes some getting used to.
That is correct. "Standard" behaviour is for su not to set root's environment
unless the "-" is supplied. This applies to most forms of UNIX and
distributions of Linux.
cheers
Duncan
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