Re: Why does su change PATH on amd64 but not on hurd-i386 ?

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Svante Signell, le Wed 31 Aug 2011 23:21:34 +0200, a écrit :
> > On the hosting Debian GNU/Linux amd64 i see
> >   $ echo $PATH
> >   /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/thomas
> >   $ su
> >   Password:
> >   # echo $PATH
> >   /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
> 
> Debian has fixed this already.

Mmm, when? Where?

> >  It gets not performed on su.
> 
> You need to use su - to get the root patch. Or add /sbin:/usr/sbin to
> your own .bashrc

Well, that's just a workaround.

Samuel