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

[Stephen Davidson]

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
>
>p.s.,  Here are the steps.
>1. Open a Terminal window, while logged in as non-root user
>2. Type the command     set
>3. Note the value for PATH.  Y will probably have to scroll up to see
>it.
>4. Type the command     su    and enter your password, if asked.
>5, Type the command     set
>6. Note the value for PATH.  Y will probably have to scroll up to see
>it.
>7. Compare the two results for PATH and report back whether they are the
>same or different.
>
>
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SuSE 9.0>>>

steve at blue:~> echo $PATH
/home/steve/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin
steve at blue:~> su
Password:
blue:/home/steve # echo $PATH
/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
blue:/home/steve #

Paths are different.

Regards,
Steve

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