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