On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:48:05PM -0400, Jake McHenry wrote:
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> it works for me. if you go into root's home directory, and look at the login
> profile, make sure that there is a . at the very end of your path statement,
> PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:.
> without that . there, it only looks at the directories in the path, not the
> current directory that you are in.
This is a very bad idea. Putting the current directory in root's path
is a significant sercurity error. Of course, if you're going to put it
in there then putting it at the end is much better than the beginning,
but I would avoid this entirely.
If you want to run a command in the current directory just do:
# ./command
I generally type the full path to most commands as root anyways, but
that's just me :)
>
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Ragnar Wiencke wrote:
>
> --Hi there.
> --Would anyone of you guys please explain why I can't run for example
> --'ifconfig' or 'ntsysv' when I use su in a telnet session? I allways get the
> --'bash: ifconfig: command not found' message. I thought that su would give me
> --all the root rights.
> --Looking forward to all your answers.
> --Ragnar W.
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