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Re: Buster install

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On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:30 AM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> As I see it the new su (behaviour) clearly distinguishes between
> "preserve environment" and "don't preserve environment".
>
> What's the point of preserving the environment, but resetting PATH?
>

It comes in handy debugging scripts. Some might also consider it an easy
safety mechanism. But it could naturally be the opposite, depending on how
clean the installation is thought to be.

Kind regards,
> Andrei
> --
> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
>

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