[CentOS] su path hard coded?
Stephen Harris
lists at spuddy.org
Wed Jul 25 10:10:37 UTC 2012
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:27:09PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> S> I want the ability to "set the default path". That's all.
>
> It sounds like your best bet would be to change the source for su, and
> just be prepared to reinstall it if/when yum (or whatever) replaces it.
>
> Being able to specify the default PATH without having to mess with shell
> setup files is a nice feature; Solaris allows you to do this by providing
> an /etc/default/su file to set the PATH plus other things like whether you
> want to use syslog for access logging, etc.
Yeah, that's the functionality I was hoping to be able to replicate.
Seems like an odd RedHat restriction, especially since other Linux
variants can do this via login.defs. Ah well.
I guess I'll have to live with it.
Thanks!
--
rgds
Stephen
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