Why use "su -" rather than "su"

[Steven C. Liu]

Any idea what is causing this?  I use gnome, and I think it's gdm.conf.  I
also tried editing /etc/profile by using pathmunge() on /usr/local/bin and
/usr/local/sbin with $2 = "after", and it did not work (after sourcing
/etc/profile).  Oddly - that should have worked for that root shell I was
using.  (I'm logged in as root.)

I have not yet edit the gdm.conf file because I don't yet wish to restart my
GUI environment.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Claude Jones
> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 12:37 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Why use "su -" rather than "su"
>
>
> On Sun July 17 2005 12:27 pm, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 2:13 AM -0500 7/17/05, John Bray wrote:
> > >here's a classic case of how to realllly screw up. su - to root. echo
> > >$PATH note that some dolt has managed to set root's path to include
> > >/usr/local/bin BEFORE the official sbins! want to guess how this
> > >stupidity is eventually going to bite us all? :-(
> >
> > Mine isn't quite so bad, but it does turn out to have the pattern
> > "foo/sbin", "foo/bin".  I expect that you're saying that it
> should be all
> > sbins, then the bins.  I think I'll change it to that.
>
> Still a new user here - could you explain how the PATH is edited?
> --
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
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