> however when I su to root I get a path like this... > > /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin > > I am not modifying the path in any environment files such as > ...bash_profile -- what is resetting my path?? > i had the same problem on some of the machines here until i removed secure-su (970616-1). in my case it was even worse, /sbin, /usr/sbin where not even in the path and the default shell was tcsh instead of bash. i think this is a bug in that particular package, but i couldn't be bothered to investigate further.
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