<p>`su -`gives root's $PATH and environment variables.</p>
<p>`su` (no hyphen!) gives root permissions but inherits $PATH and environment variables.</p>
<p>You might want to give the latter a go.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 13, 2011 10:09 AM, "mcforum" <<a href="mailto:mcforum@bellsouth.net">mcforum@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">>> As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these<br>
>>teething troubles don't discourage you.<br>> <br>> Teething Troubles--It's like climbing up a sand dune. This protecting me from <br>> myself is getting terribly frustrating. I want to do work not continually chase <br>
> the user interface. I was happy with fvwm but it has become moribund. <br>> <br>> <br>> KDE3 worked fine but KDE4 is awful. I switched to GNOME now leaving for xfce4. <br>> <br>> <br>> Along the way the administration of my systems is gone. A terminal session <br>
> switched to root with "su -" can't start a program needing the display reliably <br>> no matter which desktop is used. Analogous to kdesu, single programs can be <br>> started with sudo but an xterm started that way cannot start a next level gui <br>
> program. Sometimes the DISPLAY variable can be reset and get the "su -" root <br>> session to inherit the display. A real hassle when trying to compile, install <br>> and debug. Even CENTOS is following the pack. <br>
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