On 09/28/2006 03:56 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Calling "su" in SuSE 10.1 does not reset the path anymore, and so root suddenly has "." in his path, although CWD_IN_ROOT_PATH is set to no. This is really really bad because you don't expect it. something's amiss .... "." is not in my path, nor does it appear when I su to root. I hope it so. For the OP, try su - --

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Patrick Shanahan wrote

something's amiss ....

"." is not in my path, nor does it appear when I su to root.

You can activate it for normal users (and/or root) via /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig We have it for normal users, but I want it to disappear when I su, like it happend with SuSE 9.0. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote

* Frank Steiner [09-28-06 10:58]:

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You can activate it for normal users (and/or root) via /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig We have it for normal users, but I want it to disappear when I su, like it happend with SuSE 9.0.

Then add "." to $PATH via the user's .profile or .bashrc, and root will not know about it.

He will, that's the point actually: when su'ing to root, the current PATH is kept! It's not resetted anymore, like in 9.0. So whenever a user, that has "." in his patch, types "su", root will have the same PATH (plus some more that are added from global profile). I need the current PATH of the user typing "su" to be deleted, then re-initialized for root via /etc/profile etc. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:31 +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:

Patrick Shanahan wrote

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* Frank Steiner [09-28-06 10:58]:

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You can activate it for normal users (and/or root) via /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig We have it for normal users, but I want it to disappear when I su, like it happend with SuSE 9.0.

Then add "." to $PATH via the user's .profile or .bashrc, and root will not know about it.

He will, that's the point actually: when su'ing to root, the current PATH is kept!

Which is the correct way that it works. If you want to use root's env when you su then you need to use "su -". su without the "-" means to use the current user env (including $PATH).

It's not resetted anymore,

Never was, even in 9.0. If you check the login var's you'll find it probably never was set for anyone from the start which is the default at install time. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Christian Boltz wrote

http://suse-linux-faq.koehntopp.de/q/q-suse100-su_path.html (german)

Short answer: set ALWAYS_SET_PATH=yes in /etc/default/su

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