Re: Debian's root path
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 16:12, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 17:23, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 02:52, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:49:58AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
> > > > How did Debian setup so when I su (just su, not su -) to root ,
> > > > immediately I can access all the root's only program (but not when I
> > > > am just a normal user)? I found this very convenient and want to do
> > > > it on my other Linux distrib.
> > > Set up login shell. So for bash, ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.profile)
> >
> > Can you please expound upon that rather terse reply?
>
> basically, create a file named /root/.profile and in it put
> root-specific stuff such as
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
> export PATH
>
> for some reason I thought this happened automatically in Debian.
Here's a snippet from my Debian-created .bash_profile :
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
#if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
# PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
#f
So, Debian does it, but comments it out...
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