/sbin not in path in su?

Preston Crawford me at prestoncrawford.com
Tue Dec 16 16:31:20 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:21, Mike Evans wrote:
> Ok, that makes sense, but (and I could be wrong) doesn't that happen
> automatically with other distributions (I just came from SuSE 9)?

You are no incorrect. SuSE (and many other distributions) treat su root
and su - the same. I think Fedora's behavior is correct, though, when
you think about it. It forces the user to use su - which is safer.

Preston





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