Re: PATH nfg after su

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: PATH nfg after su
Date	2020-10-24 21:40 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 07:12:20PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

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> sudo su - has one advantage: it gives you root's path and root's home directory - so you end up in /home/root or wherever root's
> home is set to. Otherwise, you end up, potentially, in the calling user's home directory.

Not with sudo -i. This one runs a login shell for the user
you "sudo" to and puts you in its home directory. More or
less what "su -" does.

Cheers
 - t

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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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