/sbin not in path in su?

Tue Dec 16 19:58:24 UTC 2003

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:31:20 -0800, 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.

Note that "su -" is just short for "su --login" or "su -l".

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