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Re: PATH nfg after su



On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:41:07PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> 
> > PATH=/home/bob/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> 
> I examined su(1) and learned that one solution for me is to invoke su with
> the '-l' argument, which creates a 'login' shell in the new env. This sets,
> for me, the PATH to
> '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
> 
> Which is very cool..

Not the word I would have chosen.  See also:

https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster


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