Cue to Su -

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:15:49AM -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Thanks, Paul, for the cue on "su - " that you provided in response to 
> Duncan Lithgow's question re - Used swap 0MB.
> On encountering the PATH problems in attempting to tweak several issues, 
> I have been logging off the system under my username and logging on as 
> root to deal with the matter(s).  Using su - is clearly much simpler.

Another option is to use sudo. Around here, we compile it using

  --with-secure-path=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

which is usually exactly the right thing with no surprises. 

I suggested RH do this, but it was closed as notabug.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=80215>

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