Claude Jones wrote:
It's a long story, but I have pretty crippled system right now, including a
messed up root user.
When I su in a Bash terminal, instead of getting my usual prompt I get
something quite different, and if I try to run a command, it aborts with an
error like this:
cj@viewridgeproductions2 misc]$ su
Password:
sh-3.00# kcontrol
Aborting. $HOME is not set.
sh-3.00#
So root is lost - can someone help me tell it how to 'phone home'? I was
wondering why I was getting the strange 'sh-3.00#' prompt in the third line
where I used to get 'root@viewridgeproductions2 ]$' I think lines 4 and 5
are my clue, but I don't how to fix this, or for that matter, how it got into
this state.
"su" only changes the process' effective UID, but doesn't give you
root's environment. "su -" DOES give you root's environment (including
root's path and, yes, $HOME). It's equivalent to logging in as root.
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