/sbin not in path in su?

Preston Crawford me at prestoncrawford.com
Tue Dec 16 16:34:48 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:31, Preston Crawford wrote:
> 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.

Oops, I meant to say "You are NOT incorrect."

Preston





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