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 -'.
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