Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: "su -m" (on Mac) preserves $HOME and $USER but not ~ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:36:58 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 27 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20151029170210.0ACA061A6C27@triton.parabon.com> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1446165439 9165 208.118.235.17 (30 Oct 2015 00:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: dabe@dabe.com, bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <20151029170210.0ACA061A6C27@triton.parabon.com> X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020202.5632BBAB.001C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=173.191.75.166, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 249490a52b91bfa7fe893ceb6d914c81 X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1-2015.case.edu) X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020203.5632BBAD.00FF,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=173.191.75.166, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 1e079ec487db82fdfa0096a38fc311f6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.226 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11802 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/