Thank You for Your time and answer, Bob: > > $ su -c 'abc' -l anotheruser > > > > but it returns > > > > -su: abc: command not found > > > > The abc is in the anotheruser's path, but it seems option '-l' does > > not work here. > > > > How I can accomplish the goal (without manually specifying complete > > path)? > > > The above command line worked for me. What system are you using, > which shell?
I do believe You - recently I had another strange experience and again w/ bash's 'if' construction like this: if [ "$a" == --help ] - in one Debian 5 it worked, another - not! I use Debian 5 mixture of stable and testing - all updated up-to-day. Both users use /bin/bash version 3.2-4. > Is this other user's path really getting set? Is 'abc' executable and No. And here the question arises, Why? As I do understand the su manual. it says that option '-l' helps to load his (another_user's ENV). > is the content runable (in other words, if it's a script and it begins > with '#!/bin/bash', is bash really in /bin, or if it's binary, is the > binary runable for the system you're on)? Yes, it is executable - it runs just fine if I do: su - another_user and then in its shell run the abc w/o specifying the path and the abc is not in CWD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c382a9b.ce7c0e0a.180f.4...@mx.google.com
