[svlug] Paths broken as root

[aaronl@vitelus.com]

Thanks - This works great. Judging from the '-', this looks like the
reason why I have seen some bash processes running with a minus preceding
their names (These are probably the ones that have the paths set up
right). I also notice that when using su -, you can logout like from a
normal shell, but without the -, you are forced to use exit (^D works in
either case :).

Would it be considered safe to set up a bash alias so that su always means
su -?

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> Try "man su". The man page for su on my system (Slackware 3.4) says that the
> environment doesn't get created in the way you are assuming. To get a
> "normal" environment after an su switch, it says to do the command as
> 
> su -
> 
> Read your man page for additional details.
> 
> At 12:59 AM 11/23/98 +0000, aaronl at vitelus.com wrote:
> [deleted]
> >This works fine as a normal user, but not as root. This is ilustrated in
> >the example below, where I try to run wget, which resides in
> >/usr/local/bin, before and after a su:
> [deleted]
> 
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