[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: SuSE 9 or 9.1 PATH environment changes after su

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 00:44, Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
> Howdy,
>   Another list member has told me off-list that he does not believe me
> when I told him that the PATH environment variable changed after I did
> an su to root.  I tried this on SuSE 9 and 9.1 and I did not pass any
> parameters to the su command(i.e., su, not su -).  Can anyone else here
> tell me what their SuSE system does?  If you have tweaked your system to
> change this behavior from it's default, then please tell me that, too.
> Good day,
> Ralph

I said the command must be aliased on whatever distribution he is using.
I think Mandrake aliases "su" to "su -" by default.

I am very curious to see the results of:
  alias | grep su

On different distributions as both a regular and superuser.

-- Bryan

P.S.  Mr. Green asserts that Red Hat is "broken" because it does not
alias "su" to "su -" by default.

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