Why use "su -" rather than "su"

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 12:27 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 2:13 AM -0500 7/17/05, John Bray wrote:
> 
> >here's a classic case of how to realllly screw up. su - to root. echo
> >$PATH note that some dolt has managed to set root's path to include
> >/usr/local/bin BEFORE the official sbins! want to guess how this
> >stupidity is eventually going to bite us all? :-(
> 
> Mine isn't quite so bad, but it does turn out to have the pattern
> "foo/sbin", "foo/bin".  I expect that you're saying that it should be all
> sbins, then the bins.  I think I'll change it to that.

The arrangement you've described is the normal default; no need to
change it.

For instance, root's path here is:

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>