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Re: Buster install

From Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Buster install
Date 2019-07-14 08:40 +0200
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On Sb, 13 iul 19, 18:15:25, Curt Howland wrote:
> On Saturday 13 July 2019, Ansgar Burchardt was heard to say:
> 
> |   The first difference is probably the most user visible one. Doing
> |   plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -' 
> is
> |   strongly recommended to always get a newly set up environment 
> similar
> |   to a normal login.
> 
> Well, that's a remarkably stupid thing to change.

In your opinion.

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?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Buster install Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> - 2019-07-13 22:40 +0200
  Re: Buster install Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2019-07-13 23:10 +0200
  Re: Buster install Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> - 2019-07-13 23:30 +0200
    Re: Buster install <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-14 00:10 +0200
      Re: Buster install Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 08:20 +0200
        Re: Buster install <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-14 11:50 +0200
          Re: Buster install Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-15 16:00 +0200
  Re: Buster install Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> - 2019-07-14 00:20 +0200
    Re: Buster install Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 08:40 +0200
      Re: Buster install Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 21:30 +0200
      Re: Buster install Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-15 16:30 +0200
        Re: Buster install Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-16 09:10 +0200
          Re: Buster install Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-16 15:20 +0200

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