Re: Changing user while being root will leave you to the root homedir.

[aprekates <aprekates@posteo.net>]

Thanks. It worked.

Although its still strange why debian 9.8 behaves differently
when i execute su foouser as root.

On 19/3/19 11:21 π.μ., Qiming Ye wrote:
> Have you tried:
>    # su - chomwitt
>
> - Qiming
>
> On 2019-03-19 10:57+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.
> >
> > $ man ls
> > man: can't change directory to '/root': Permission denied
> > man: command exited with status 255: sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N;
> > /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }' | (cd /root && LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page
> > ls(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for
> > help or q to quit)$PM Manual page ls(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e
> > (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=ls(1) pager)
> >
> >
> > In another 9.6 , changing user will put me in the user's home dir.
> >
> > Alexandros