Re: More bugs in 0.91 ...

[jimr@simons-rock.edu (James A. Robinson)]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian A Murdock <imurdock@shell.portal.com> writes:
    Ian> Yes, this was a terrible kludge to deal with the fact that
    Ian> GNU su refused to set the PATH correctly when su'ing from a
    Ian> normal account to root (the end result was a root session
    Ian> without /sbin, etc.).  I have since gone into the source and
    Ian> made the appropriate changes to allow for proper behavior
    Ian> without the need for such a kludge; "vanilla" su should now
    Ian> act very much as expected.

Umm, normal su is not supposed to set your LOGIN and HOME to /root
unless you supply it with the -, -l, or --login correct? Since the
fsstd claims we should not (as normal users) have /sbin in our path,
perhaps we should simply say "If you are su'ing to root, and need
/sbin, do an `su -`" or something?  This is like the rm question
though, and more a matter of preferences then anything else.

Jim