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. HTH -Mark
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