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Re: PATH nfg after su

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:15:24PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Behaviour changed in Buster - su - is now required. [Likewise sudo su - if you use sudo]

That's silly.  Just use "sudo -i" if you want a root login shell, or
"sudo -s" if you want a normal root shell (roughly equivalent to what "su"
used to do before buster).

Using both sudo and su chained together is a complete waste.

Using "sudo su -" is a new one to me.  Not only are you wastefully
running two programs when you only need one, but you're ignoring the
fact that sudo has already changed PATH for you, so you don't need to
force su to run a login shell to do it *again*.

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  Re: PATH nfg after su Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-10-23 05:50 +0200
    Re: PATH nfg after su Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-23 14:10 +0200
    Re: PATH nfg after su Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-23 14:20 +0200
      Re: PATH nfg after su Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-23 14:40 +0200
        Re: PATH nfg after su Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-23 14:40 +0200
        Re: PATH nfg after su Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-10-23 15:20 +0200
          Re: PATH nfg after su Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-23 20:00 +0200
            Re: PATH nfg after su Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-23 20:10 +0200
            Re: PATH nfg after su "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-10-24 21:20 +0200
              Re: PATH nfg after su <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-24 21:40 +0200
    Re: PATH nfg after su "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2020-10-23 14:20 +0200

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