Re: paths and su

[Alex Romosan <alex@juliet.fnal.gov>]

> however when I su to root I get a path like this...
> 
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> 
> I am not modifying the path in any environment files such as
> ...bash_profile -- what is resetting my path?? 
> 
i had the same problem on some of the machines here until i removed
secure-su (970616-1). in my case it was even worse, /sbin, /usr/sbin
where not even in the path and the default shell was tcsh instead of
bash. i think this is a bug in that particular package, but i couldn't
be bothered to investigate further.

--alex--

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