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Patching the default PATH of `su`
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Patching the default PATH of `su` |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Apr 2018 12:37:12 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
In the man page of su(1), it says this:
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The current environment is passed to the new shell. The value of $PATH is reset
to
/bin:/usr/bin for normal users, or /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin for the
superuser.
This may be changed with the ENV_PATH and ENV_SUPATH definitions in
/etc/login.defs.
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This means that `su leo` or `sudo su` give a broken environment on
GuixSD. You have to use `su --login` instead.
Should we use our own values for ENV_PATH and ENV_SUPATH so that this
works out of the box?
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- Patching the default PATH of `su`,
Leo Famulari <=