Re: rocks n diamonds
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:45:41AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:30:46 +0100
> 'su' inherits the current environment ($PATH, etc.)
>
> 'su -' creates a new environment (based on user you're su-ing to [not
> always root])
>
> This is a change from previous behaviour (obviously). However, many
> (all?) other distros do it that way, Debian just came late to that
> particular party.
>
> There's bound to be info about it on the Debian wiki,
https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes
> and it has
> certainly been discussed on this list in the past. Those discussions
> may have taken place before you joined us here, IDK. Search for 'su vs
> su -' using your preferred search engine, and you'll see lots of info.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00487.html
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460478/debian-su-and-su-path-differences
https://superuser.com/questions/1354131/debainbuster-su-not-working-properly-command-not-found
https://metabubble.net/linux/how-to-really-restore-legacy-behavior-of-su-in-debian-buster/
And certainly many more, but that's all I could find in a minute or so
with Google. The problem is, most of the relevant threads have unrelated
Subject headers, like "rocks n diamonds". Which is not the OP's fault --
it's just the way it ends up working out.
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