Re: Why use "su -" rather than "su"

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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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