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 23:30:02 +0200, a écrit :
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 23:26 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I don't remember where I saw this. But that is the way it works in
> Debian, I just tried too.

In Debian Linux, yes. But we still have the issue on Debian Hurd. There
is no reason why we shouldn't be able to get the same behavior.

Samuel