[techtalk] su and PATH?

[Olivier Tharan]

Le 11 octobre 2000, Brian Sweeney écrivait :
> Quick questions that's been bugging me for some time...if I telnet to a
> machine as a normal user and SU as root, I don't gain any of the root user's
> standard PATH.  So when I try to execute programs I have to specify
> /usr/sbin, or /usr/bin, or whatever.  I'm using bash.

Do a 'su -' to have a login shell -- bash will then read root's
.bash_profile.

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