From: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>, Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Subject: [su] New su utility messes with my PATH
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:17:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50547FE7.204@archlinux.org> (raw)
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I found what I think is absolutely unexpected behaviour in the new su
utility. It seems to have been introduced by commit a6fdd3f8.
It is about /sbin and /usr/sbin being in the path: Whenever you switch
to a non-root user, they are removed from the path, and when you switch
to root, they are added. I find it completely unexpected that su (when
not running with -l) messes with my environment at all.
Commands like
PATH=... su -c "cmd" user
do not work as expected.
In my opinion, when you wish your path (or anything in the environment)
to change you should a) use -l to start a login shell or b) configure
your scripts to take care of it.
I propose to revert the mentioned patch. Opinions?
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next reply other threads:[~2012-09-15 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 13:17 Thomas Bächler [this message]
2012-09-15 14:43 ` [su] New su utility messes with my PATH Pádraig Brady
2012-09-20 9:47 ` Karel Zak
2012-09-21 7:54 ` Ludwig Nussel
2012-10-02 8:17 ` Karel Zak
2012-10-02 8:23 ` Thomas Bächler
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