Re: Firmware III grub

[Siard <shiems+debian@mailbox.org>]

Hans wrote:
> There is also "su -p", which stands for "preserve". You need this, if you
> want use graphical applications as a normal user, which need root rights
> (for example wireshark or editing config files with kwrite, with owner
> "root").

I accomplished the same by creating /usr/local/bin/su containing these lines:

#! /bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
/bin/su

and making it executable.
/usr/local/bin takes precedence over /bin/su in $PATH.
In fact, su now has its old behaviour back.