[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: SuSE 9 or 9.1 PATH environment changes after su

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 14:26, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> steve at blue:~> echo $PATH
> /home/steve/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin
> steve at blue:~> su
> Password:
> blue:/home/steve # echo $PATH
> /usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> blue:/home/steve #
> Paths are different.

Most of my experience is with SLSS/SLES 8.
Is this a change in 9?

If so, maybe SuSE is not using an alias, but another approach.
The alias is just the most common I've seen (e.g., Mandrake)

As such, on SuSE Linux 9.x, what do you get from:  
  $ su -
  # echo $PATH

As well as,
  $ which su

Just curious.  Thanx.

-- Bryan

P.S.  I consider changing the PATH by default quite "broken" from a
traditional UNIX/Linux standpoint.  It would _screw_up_ a lot of the
usage/scripts I use.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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