23 Jul
2012
23 Jul
'12
7:33 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target user's login environment?
It's "su -" that causes the 'su' comman to rewrite the PATH to the hardcoded default.
But it should be executing the target user's .profile which can override it. '-' should be a synonym for -l or --login.
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