[Fedora-ambassadors-list] review of Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany

[Tejas Dinkar]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 14:24 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 5/20/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > >  * In Fedora /sbin is not in the PATH for _su_ example ifconfig but as
> > > _su -_, /sbin is in the PATH? other distros like Mandriva and Suse it is
> > > not the case. Why?
> >
> > I am not sure. I saw a discussion initiated by you in fedora-devel list
> > but I didnt see any concrete answers. Did you get any?
> 
> Till now, these were what I had. But I think Ill ask this question in
> Suse and Mandriva mailing lists to be better documented in this field.

Does it matter?

1) su is not supposed to change your $PATH at all, so it works perfectly
fine
2) you should always use su -, or rather, su --login
3) Nothing in the /sbin should be run as a user anyway

Gja