Re: "su -m" (on Mac) preserves $HOME and $USER but not ~

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: "su -m" (on Mac) preserves $HOME and $USER but not ~
Date	2015-10-29 20:36 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID	<mailman.1287.1446165438.7904.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 10/29/15 1:02 PM, dabe@dabe.com wrote:

> Machine Type: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
> 
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> 	I'm hoping this issue has been solved before, but I couldn't
> 	find any answers on the 'Net...
> 
> 	When I "su -m", my $HOME environment variable is preserved okay
> 	(i.e., it remains my original home directory) but often[*] '~'
> 	is set to the target (root) user's home directory.

I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.11.  It's weird to see how it could
happen, since ~ expands to $HOME and goes to the password file only if
that is unset.

Chet
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