[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: SuSE 9 or 9.1 PATH environment changes after su -- no way to get the user path?

[Stephen Davidson]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:14, Stephen Davidson wrote:
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>>>>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
>>>>        
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>No sbin in the path.
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>>>>steve at blue:~> su
>>>>Password:
>>>>blue:/home/steve # echo $PATH
>>>>/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>>>>        
>>>>
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>Now there is an sbin in the path.
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>>steve at blue:/tmp> su -
>>Password:
>>blue:~ # echo $PATH
>>/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin
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>Now there is _both_ sbin _and_ the user path.
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>So how do I get just the user path?  I can't!
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>-- Bryan
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>P.S.  Thanx Steve.
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Greeting, Bryan.

NP.  Probably should mention, when I log in as root, root has full 
system as well as root stuff in path, so what you could be seeing is the 
path for the root user.

Regards,
Steve

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