On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:13, Robert E. Martin wrote: > >this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided > >you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see whether it > >works for you?
> Yes this does work. Why is this different from the older versions of > bash? Is this a new alias in the shell itself? security? "su -" (or "su -l") means that the target user's shell will be a "logon shell". in practice, this means that: 1. environment variables will be set up as if you had logged in directly as that target user (generally root), rather than inheriting them from the original user 2. your directory will change to the target user's home directory what is helping you here is that with a login shell on a standard red hat box, root gets a different PATH to the other users. specifically, root's PATH will contain /sbin where 'ifconfig' lives. > Thanks for the never ending supply of Linux tips and tricks! hope you understood -- wasn't quite certain what level to pitch my description at. > -- > Robert E Martin > IT Manager > Fishburne Military School > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 540.946.7726 > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ do NOT use the following e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
