On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:11:51 +0200 "Florian Petran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/4 Robert T Childers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I ended up adding an export PALUDIS_OPTIONS > > to /home/trent/.bashrc > > I set it there because I open up a bash shell in my user account > > the su into root from that shell. > > This is an unsafe solution. You should actually use "su -" to become > root as this will clean out the environment, and particularly PATH of > any potentially unsafe entries.
True if you're dealing with a multi-user system where most people don't have root or physical access to the box. Not true if you're dealing with what's effectively a single user system where the user / root split is merely there to prevent accidents. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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