On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 16:27 -0800, Ron Johnson wrote: > I don't modify the path on my system from the install default, but > when logged in as root via 'su', /sbin is not in the path. I do see > something in /etc/profile that is apparently supposed to put it in > there if the EUID is zero, but it never seems to happen. I hadn't > really thought about it much till now. Is that a bug? Does this > happen to anyone else? > > It also happens when using sudo, i.e. "sudo service" gets "sudo: > service: command not found", whereas "sudo /sbin/service" shows usage > for service. Both su and sudo only change your effective user ID to that of the root user (in essence giving you root permissions to files/directories/etc.), but your environment (PATH, HOME, TMPDIR, etc.) all remain untouched. If you want to gain a full login shell as the root user (including your own environment and running root's login scripts), you need to use 'su -'. -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) / FSF Associate Member #5015 GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/ About: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PeterGordon
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