From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>,
Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [su] New su utility messes with my PATH
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:43:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50549411.9000302@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50547FE7.204@archlinux.org>
On 09/15/2012 02:17 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> 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?
Ouch, I agree.
su shouldn't be messing with PATH at all IMHO.
cheers,
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-15 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 13:17 [su] New su utility messes with my PATH Thomas Bächler
2012-09-15 14:43 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
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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