Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.
Hi.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:57:04AM +0200, aprekates wrote:
> In a new debian 9.8 installation i noticed that:
>
> root@s165:~# pwd
> /root
>
> root@s165:~# su chomwitt
> chomwitt@s165:/root$
>
> ..and from there i cant even execute ls.
It's expected, su(1) says that:
The current environment is passed to the new shell
That includes $PWD, which is current working directory for the shell.
Use "su - chomwitt", it'll work the way you expect it.
Reco
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