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

[terry]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm thinking that aliasing su - to su is pretty handy because I, for 
one, find no need to just use su without -

My question is, (and I know I'm probably showing my ignorance here, 
but), in what case would it be better to use su without - ?

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