Once upon a time, Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > 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 -'. The annoying thing about that is that "su -" also changes your current working directory. If you are in a directory and need to do something to a file as root, you either "su" (and possible have to set your PATH or explicitly call /usr/sbin/xyzzy) or you "su -" and hunt down the directory again. Personally, I drop an extra script in /etc/profile.d that (among other things) adds /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin to the PATH of all users. It doesn't really hurt anything. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
