Re: Buster install
Curt Howland writes:
> I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in root's
> path by default?
/sbin is in root's path by default. However Debian now uses a different
implementation of `su` which no longer changes PATH by default:
+---
| - new 'su' (with no args, i.e. when preserving the environment) also
| preserves PATH and IFS, while old su would always reset PATH and IFS
| even in 'preserve environment' mode.
| [...]
| The first difference is probably the most user visible one. Doing
| plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -' is
| strongly recommended to always get a newly set up environment similar
| to a normal login.
+---[ /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz ]
Ansgar
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