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Re: PATH nfg after su

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:41:07PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> 
> > PATH=/home/bob/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> 
> I examined su(1) and learned that one solution for me is to invoke su with
> the '-l' argument, which creates a 'login' shell in the new env. This sets,
> for me, the PATH to
> '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
> 
> Which is very cool..

Not the word I would have chosen.  See also:

https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster

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PATH nfg after su Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-10-23 04:40 +0200
  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
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        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
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