Re: Buster install

To: Debian Users ML <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Buster install
From: Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:27:53 -0500
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:30 AM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

As I see it the new su (behaviour) clearly distinguishes between
"preserve environment" and "don't preserve environment".

What's the point of preserving the environment, but resetting PATH?

It comes in handy debugging scripts. Some might also consider it an easy safety mechanism. But it could naturally be the opposite, depending on how clean the installation is thought to be.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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